print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.478
- Title
- Object: Winter
- Description
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A fashionably-dressed young woman shown walking to left, wearing an ermine-trimmed, hooded cape, both hands in a small muff, glancing towards the viewer; in the background, skaters in front of a large building with a classical arcade, one of whom has fallen over, and a man chopping wood; reworked state.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1750s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of the seasons (2010,7081.475-478). Spring is signed 'Johnson'.
States
(i) showing the woman in a fur-trimmed cape which flutters behind her; lettered with the title, two columns of verse 'Winter in all her wamest Dress behold, / To guard her Body from the piercing Cold; // Her Hood and Mantle and her Velvet Muff, / All she can wrap about her's scarce enough' and 'Printed for & Sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, & Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.' [see 2010,7081.477 for an impression]
(ii) reworked; the woman altered entirely to show her in a waist-length, ermine-trimmed, hooded cape, and with both hands in the muff
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.478