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1. The cottagers daughter [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [12 December 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.12.16.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A full-length view of a pretty young woman in rustic dress with a straw bonnet, braiding corn with a sheaf in her apron, the end of which is tucked into her waistband. She stands in the center of the image under a grove of trees, with a river in the background on the left and a thatched cottage in the background on the right. In front of the door of the cottage, a man in a farmer's smock relaxes in a chair and smoking a pipe and a mud on a small table at his elbow
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Illustration to ballad The Cottagers Daughter. Text of the ballad is printed below the image, in three columns., Text begins: Ah tell me ye swains have you seen my Pastora, O say have you met the sweet Numph in your way ..., Numbered '311' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Published 16th Decr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Corn, Daughters, Dwellings, Farmers, Fathers, Handicraft, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cottagers daughter [graphic].
2. Winter [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliament October 1st 1762.
- Call Number:
- 762.10.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old man in a fur hat and a fur-trimmed coat sits in front of a fireplace. In the foreground, his daughter kneels in front of fire using bellows to keep it going. In the background, his young son offers his father a bowl of steeming broth
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below image: In life's last scene the hoary man of years, emblem of Winter, wrapt in furr appears ...
- Publisher:
- Printed for Henry Parker, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Domestic life, Families, Fathers, and Older people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Winter [graphic]
