print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.5083
- Description
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Fable of The Barley-Mow and the Dunghill; in a farmyard, a farmer standing to right, leaning on a fork, a dog at his feet, facing a dunghill; barley-mow behind at right, barn beyond with farm worker threshing; poultry and pigs at left, cottage behind; in an oval, within square border, vertical stripes in spandrels; illustration to 'Fables by the Late Mr. Gay' (London: 1788); proof.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1788 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 millimetres (image)
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Width: 71 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a volume bound in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Woodcuts. / Vol.II / By Bewick.' and on the inside with 'T. W. Waters Binder.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Fables by the late Mr. Gay
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0311.5083
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2478
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 248
