print
- Museum number
- 1875,0814.1425
- Title
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Object: No. 4
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Series: The Winter's Day Delineated
- Description
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Interior of a cottage, with a broken shutter falling away from the window looking out on a snowy landscape, where a poor family is hard at work, one woman spinning, another sewing, with a crying infant at her side, and a man on the left is weaving a basket on the left; illustration to Mrs. Robinson's poem, after Cosway. 1803
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on brown paper
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres (image)
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Height: 280 millimetres (sheet, approx.)
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Width: 290 millimetres (image)
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Width: 355 millimetres (sheet, approx.)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For more information on the set, see 1875,0814.1422.
No.4
'Tis in the rushy hut obscure
Where poverty's low sons endure:
And scarcely daring to repine,
On a straw pallet, mute, recline
O'erwhelm'd with woe
(Alexander 65)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Winter's Day
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0814.1425
