print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1875,1211.18
- Title
- Object: Spring
- Description
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Illustration to Thomson's Seasons, with allegorical figures and zodiac symbol for Taurus in clouds with rainbows above a landscape with piping shepherd and lover sitting in the left foreground, and a villa at foot of hills at right. c.1730
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1730 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 millimetres
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Width: 72 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of the four seasons at 1875,1211.18-21, reduced versions of engraving by N. Tardieu after Kent for 1730 edition, (at 1874,0613.1303*-1306).
The number of bathers has been reduced from the four in the original design.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Seasons
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,1211.18
