"Landscape, rural; small cottage with figures at lower left; broken fence in front center near brook; water, stream in center with man on horseback herding cattle across it; large trees in back left and at front right on shore."--Collections database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, accession no.: SC 2009:16.
Description:
Title etched below image., Identified in the Metopolitan Museum of Art online catalog (Object Number: 59.533.1685) as a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812, despite not being listed in Grego as such (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-246)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 27 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego for a print of the same composition: Rest from labour on sunny days., Attributed to Rowlandson by curator., Possibly a study for a print of the same composition that is signed "Rowlandson 1784." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 150., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Rustic scene; a swain sitting on a stone block, playing the flute to a young, barefoot woman who stands in front of him, looking up at him and leaning back against his right leg, a dog at her feet at left; behind at left, the outer wall of an overgrown stone edifice, trees beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rest from labour on sunny days
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: Rest from labour on sunny days., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.165., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 15.9 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 86 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Landscape with figures binding a bundle of wood at right, cattle and sheep resting at left, hills beyond."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0713.2234
Alternative Title:
From an original, late in the collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Mounted on verso of leaf 63 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21, 1789 by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
