print
- Museum number
- 1899,0120.109
- Title
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Object: Mid-day
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Series: The British Gallery
- Description
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Pastoral landscape, with two figures in the left foreground, goats and cattle grazing on the bank of a river which flows into the right foreground, a tree on the further bank at centre, temples and a bridge in the mid-distance; scratched open-letter state. 1809
Etching and aquatint on chine collé
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres
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Width: 430 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See related drawing 1957,1214.130.
From 'The British Gallery of Pictures: Selected from the Most Admired Productions of the Old Masters in Great Britain, accompanied with Descriptions, Historical and Critical' (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818). It consists of twenty-five plates, with an accompanying text written by Henry Tresham (1751-1814) and William Young Ottley (1771-1836).
The Department of Prints and Drawings holds a complete edition of the set under reg. numbers 1860,0211.114 to 139.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1899,0120.109