print
- Museum number
- 1872,0511.298
- Title
- Object: The Shelter'd Peasants
- Description
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A woman, child and shepherd boy sheltering under a large tree, the woman sitting with her arms around the child, looking up to left, sheep huddled to the right, with rain clouds over a town in the background to right; after Singleton; re-published state with scratched open-letter inscription, publisher altered from Cardon. 1799
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 410 millimetres
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Width: 330 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See another impression (1929,1018.1) in which the painter is named as Henry Singleton. The present impression appears to be a republished plate: there are traces of earlier work in this impression, for example, the shepherd's shoe.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,0511.298