print
- Museum number
- 1931,1114.531
- Title
- Object: The Twelve Months
- Description
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Sheet with vignettes of the twelve months, including people skating in January; a snowball fight in February; high winds blowing a man's hat away and a sail boat nearly turning over for March; A couple walking on a gardnen towards the left for April, the woman holding an umbrella; people dancing around a Maypole for May; people making hay for July, including a girl about to throw hay over a boy; men reaping the hay in July; workers saying goodbye to a group in a cart with the hay being taken away for August; Two men with shotguns hunting for September; people picking fruit from trees in October; a festival for November, a boy on the left knocking on a door; a family eating a Christmas dinner for December; the centre of the print open, where poems have been hand-written and dated Christmas 1813. 1811
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 467 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 372 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1931,1114.531
