print
- Museum number
- 1899,0420.8
- Title
- Object: The rustic ballad
- Description
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A group of rural workers seated and standing around tables outside the entrance of an inn; a young woman on the left holding a piece of paper with a ballad written on it; on the right, agricultural tools and a dog; one man smoking a pipe; after G. Morland.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 337 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 371 millimetres (trimmed or cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Impression with publication details cut. Whitman quotes the publication line from Messrs. Vokins' Catalogue of Prints after Morland, exhibited 1893-94, No. 156: "Published January 1st, 1795, by J. Read, 122, Pall Mall.".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Acquisition notes
- The 51 prints purchased from Joseph Grego (1899,0420.1 to 51) are recorded as having been selected from a collection of prints after George Morland formed by the Hon. Algernon Bourke, afterwards the property of Henry Milner, Esq. The collection was sold in 214 lots at Christie's on 14/5 February 1899.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1899,0420.8