print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1849,0721.1220-1224
- Description
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Five illustrations to an edition of Shenstone's poems (Cadell, London, 1798); after Stothard; among six prints pasted to the same album sheet.
Two young women garlanding an urn on a plinth in a garden, with another on the right carrying a basket of flowers on her head; by Heath; before letters.
A shepherd wearing tartan, sitting in the right foreground playing a pipe for a young woman beside him; frontispiece to Vol. II; by Neagle; with scratched artists' names, on chine collé.
A female figure in classical dress holding a sword, standing on the left, addressing Hercules, who sits with Venus and Cupid on the right; by Neagle; with scratched artists' names, on chine collé
An old lady sitting in front of a fire on the right, surrounded by children; by Neagle; with scratched artists' names.
An old schoolmistress sitting at a spinning wheel on the right, listening to children reading their lessons; by Neagle; with scratched artists' names.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1798
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres (images, circa)
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Width: 67 millimetres (images, circa)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Included in the third volume of Balmanno's collection of Stothard's work in BM P&D. See 1849,0721.1 for more information.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0721.1220-1224