print
- Museum number
- 1863,0110.17
- Title
- Object: Breaking the Ice
- Description
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A man raising a pick, breaking the ice covering a pool, for three cows to drink, with a girl swathed in a cloak standing behind him, a jug beside her, in a snow-covered landscape with gnarled trees to left and right and the rooftops of a house in the background; after Westall; scratched-letter proof. 1803
Stipple etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 558 millimetres
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Width: 685 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Acquisition notes
- According to the register, from the posthumous sale of E M Durand, London (Southgate & Barrett), 8 January 1863, lot 14
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1863,0110.17