print
- Museum number
- 1948,1208.15
- Description
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Moonlit landscape with lovers embracing at left outside a cottage, a donkey resting beneath a tree on the bank of a river beside with silhouette of a windmill beside a bridge in the centre beyond, a castle on a hill above at right, the moon full; after John Collet, plate 6 from a set of twenty four titled 'Collet's Designs both Serious and Comic'. 1770
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 200 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The title appears on a label on an incomplete copy of the first part in the collection of Burton Constable House, Yorkshire. It was listed in Sayer & Bennett's 1775 catalogue as 'Twenty four delightful Views". The BM has six plates from the series at 1948,1208.12-16 and 1890,0512.26.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,1208.15