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- Museum number
- 1862,1011.625
- Title
- Object: May Day
- Description
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Two woman dancing to a fiddle player at right, as a man carries a hat of jugs and saucers surmounted by bowl of flowers; three young sweeps at left, one drinking from a fountain; a woman standing demurely apart from the dancers at right and a cottage behind at right; after a painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens, now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (Allen CL 208). c.1743
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1743 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 254 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Acquisition notes
- 1862,1011.412 to 670 are listed as having come from the sale of J J A Fillinham at Puttick & Simpson on 6-8 August 1862. They comprised lot numbers 332, 339, 345, 402, 433, 569, 570, 571, 573, 577 and 578.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,1011.625