Rustic courtship

Rustic courtship

Item Information

Title:
Rustic courtship
Description:
Rowlandson has given his unmistakable characteristics to this plate, which is executed in outline etching, and filled in in aquatint, in admirable facsimile of the artist's drawings, washed in Indian ink, and tastefully coloured. A fair cottage beauty is spinning flax ; her wheel is placed outside the cottage-door ; she is being stared at in vacuous admiration by a rustic Colin Clout, who is grinning from ear to ear and scratching his forehead in perplexity. Hop-poles are seen in the distance, and the landscape is one of those pretty country scenes such as may often be seen in England.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Artist:
Wigstead, Henry
Name on Item:
H. Wigstead delin't.
Date:
December 15, 1785
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Aquatints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Courtship
Extent:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; plate mark 26 x 36 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
London, No. 83 Oxford Street : J. R. Smith
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, I, p. 171
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Identifier:
18_03_000191
Barcode:
36666003332869