Title etched below image., Also signed "Rowlandson 1822" in lower left corner of design., Date of publication based on other plates in the series; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 373., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., For a probable earlier state published 25 November 1809, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 169., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of the bay at West Looe, beach in foreground with three men repairing the bottom of one fishing boat with pitch and three men unloading baskets from another; river behind running from between the arches of a bridge at left to the sea at right, and low cliff jutting up behind with a small row of houses at centre; tree-covered hill behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
West Looe, Cornwall
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View up a street with thatched houses on either side; in the foreground at centre a man leaning over a fence, looking over to a group of people outside a cottage at right, a mother seated and nursing a baby, three other children beside her, a man seated and dandling a child, and a woman in the doorway, next to which is hanging a bird in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of a river descending to left down a short series of waterfalls, a shepherd and a woman on a grassy bank at right looking out to left, with dog and flock of sheep; tall rocky hill rising immediately behind the river."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of a river descending to left down a short series of waterfalls, a shepherd and a woman on a grassy bank at right looking out to left, with dog and flock of sheep; tall rocky hill rising immediately behind the river."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before alterations to the plate. For a later state with the title re-etched, Rowlandson's signature burnished away, and a border and a new statement of responsibility added, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0612.377., Reworked plate published in: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Formerly mounted on leaf 30 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A picnicking party on a grassy bank, a man standing at centre with a fishing rod, a pool at right at which a man and a woman are fishing; steep and wooded rocky cliff behind, a gate halfway up at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of a field at harvest with several sheaves already tied, the uncut wheat at left, a woman at centre bending to cut it, two oxen yoked to a plough at right, a party picnicking at foreground left; two houses in the mid-distance at centre between a thick band of trees, low hills beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"View of rolling moorland, in the foreground a high cairn of stones at right, in front of which a path down which two men, one on horseback, are driving a flock of sheep to left, more rocks beside the path at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"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., Possibly a plate from Rowlandson's "Views of Cornwall" series, dated 1812 (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 239-46), or from "Rowlandson's sketches from nature," dated 1809 and 1822 (see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 169, 178, and 373)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 27 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Leaf 80. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike. For an earlier issue, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.279., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 80 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 22, 1788, by Wm. Rowlandson, No. 49 Broad Street, Bloomsbury and Field & Tuer