"A large stone cottage at right, with stone wall, a figure standing in a doorway looking out over a half-gate at far right, in the road in the foreground, a woman with a pail on her head and a man holding a horse, standing on either side of a group of three pigs; tall trees behind and at left, distant hill beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cottage in the Duchy of 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 20 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"A two-storey stone building at left, an inn sign above the door with a picture of a man, half-length with a hat and whip; a maid standing in the doorway and holding out a shallow tray to a horse, a woman standing by another horse nearby; at left, in front of an adjoining building, two horses with empty pack saddles, a man standing looking at them with his arm around a woman's shoulders; in foreground right, a child pursuing a sow and litter with a stick, a woman on a horse behind following three cattle, hills in the distance."--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 20 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
"Beach scene, a single-masted ship keeled on its side at centre right, men working on it and unloading barrels into an ox-drawn cart, two other carts heading away in procession behind at left; in another procession in the same direction, a cart with bodies laid out, a man and two women following, a man throwin up his arms, another carrying a man on his shoulders; at right, a man and woman praying or wringing their hands over a corpse of a sailor lying on the beach; sea at right, rocky cliffs jutting out onto the beach and shore 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 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.
"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.
"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 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 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 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.
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.