drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1993,0508.2.30
- Description
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The botanist's search for herbs, from "Spring" in Thomson's 'The Seasons', mounted in an album of 30 drawings by the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design; a cloaked man stooping to gather herbs by a stream on the side of a hill, mountains in distance. 4 Apr 1810
Graphite with pen and brown ink and brown wash
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 357 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The passage from 'Spring' in Thomson's "The Seasons", illustrated by the sixth group of drawings in the album, begins: "Then spring the living herbs, profusely wild," and continues for five lines, ending: "Whether he steals along the lonely dale, / In silent search;"
For a description of the album and for further information about the Sketching Society, see the entry for 1993,0508.2.1.
From album 1993,0508.2.1-30
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Spring
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Associated Title: The Seasons
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1993,0508.2.30
