print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3383
- Title
- Object: The Woodman's Repast
- Description
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A young woodcutter standing in front of a tree, his arms crossed, his axe at his feet and a hooked knife in one hand, smiling at a child who kneels on the ground on the right, holding up food from a basket beside her, with a woman sitting breast-feeding a child beside the woodman and a boy approaching on the left, carrying a barrel and loaf of bread; after Turner. 1799
Colour mezzotint with etching
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 550 millimetres
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Width: 458 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Pair to 'A Woodman at Labor' (2010,7081.3382)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.3383
