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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0716.366
Title: Object: Cowherds
Description: Two young men in rustic clothing, on a path with landscape curving down on the left, and rocky hills in the right background, one standing leaning over the neck of a shaggy cow, the other sitting on a tree-trunk to the right, with a knife and loaf, with a cow beside him; after Carter; scratched-letter state. 1774 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Raphael Smith; After: George Carter; Printed by: James Gamble
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Production date: 1774
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 226 millimetres (sheet); Width: 176 millimetres
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Curator's comments: D'Oench notes that the print was exhibited at the SA in 1775 (227), as one of 'six small mezzotintos'.
Bibliographic references: D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (43); Frankau 1902 / John Raphael Smith, his Life and Works (95); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1888,0716.366

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