print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.485
- Title
- Object: Summer
- Description
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A fashionably-dressed young woman shown three-quarters length standing to left, glancing towards the viewer as she collects corn in her apron; with a sickle resting on a grassy verge behind to right, under a tree from which hangs a tambourine and pipes; after Pyle.
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1760s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 352 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of the seasons engraved by Houston after Pyle (2010,7081.484-87). Autumn is recorded by Chaloner Smith as number 144, in a state with artists' names only. There is a set in the same direction engraved by James Watson and published by Carington Bowles (Goodwin 199; 2010,7081.513-516). There is also a further set in the same direction by Richard Purcell, signing himself Corbutt: see Chaloner Smith Purcell no. 86 (Spring and Winter listed in Additions and Corrections; 2010,7081.503-506).
There is also a reduced set, by Purcell and published by Sayer (2010,7081.1628, 2115, 2139, 2194)
- 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
- 2010,7081.485