print
- Museum number
- 1864,1114.235
- Title
- Series: A collection of fifty-three prints
- Description
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Landscape with a river, gentle falls in the foreground, a herd of cows in the river above the falls, two herdsmen sitting on the bank, trees on either side of the river, a figure in the left foreground walking towards the river, another figure watching over the garden wall of a cottage in the left middle distance, smoke rising from another cottage across the river, two figures rowing a boat at a bend towards the right background; after George Smith. 1770
Etching with engraving
- Production date
- 1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 351 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the first print in an incomplete bound volume of the series in the British Museum, located in 190*.b.4. There are forty nine prints in this volume (1864,1114.235-283), out of fifty three which are meant to complete the series. They are all made by both John and George Smith, or either one of them, published by John Boydell in 1770. The title-page reads: "A / collection / of / fifty-three prints, / consisting of / etchings and engravings; / by those ingenious artists / Messrs. George and John Smith, / of Chichester; / after their own paintings, and other masters. / Published by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, / London, 1770." The plates are unnumbered, some dated 1760s. Many of them are printed in a pair on one sheet. The registration numbers after 1864,1114.266 do not follow the sequence of the prints bound in the volume.
There are some duplications in the Printmakers series. 1877,0609.1893-1917 (except 1877,0609.1894) are from another volume, purchased from Mr Bihn, a print dealer. 1860,0811.36-52 are also from another volume, kept together with the title-page which is a duplicate of the one above to 1864,1114.235-283. Some impressions in the Printmakers series are proofs, or earlier impressions dated as early as 1755. 1854,1111.115 and 1948,0217.18 are in the style of the series, so probably two of the four prints which are not included in 190*.b.4.
See 1877,0609.1893 and 1861,1012.2548 for more impressions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,1114.235