print
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.602
- Title
- Series: The Peasant's Wedding
- Description
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A young couple in rustic dress, the woman holding a crook, standing before a bearded old man who sits on the left with a large book propped in front of him, gesturing towards them, at dusk in a landscape lit by a brazier set on a rocky bank above to left; after Singleton.
Stipple printed in brown ink
- Production date
- 1775-1798 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 298 millimetres (image, excluding border)
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Height: 343 millimetres (sheet, trimmed)
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Width: 245 millimetres (image, excluding border)
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Width: 253 millimetres (sheet, trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plates for the Peasant's Wedding (and what must have been its pair) together with 850 plain and 87 coloured impressions appeared as Lot 17 in Edward Jee's bankruptcy sale on 24 June 1799 (P&D, Sc.A.1.1/30); the lot sold for £26.5s to "De Roset".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.602
