print
- Museum number
- F,1.157
- Title
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Object: Aestas
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Series: The Four Seasons
- Description
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Plate 2: Summer. Landscape with several farmers shearing sheep in foreground, women collecting the wool in large baskets, the sheep being washed in a river at left, houses in background; second state with publisher's address; after Pieter Stevens. 1620
Engraving
- Production date
- 1620
- Dimensions
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Height: 239 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of four plates showing the seasons after Pieter Stevens. For a complete set in BM collection see F,1.156-159.
A preparatory drawing in Oxford.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- The set of four seasons has a uniform provenance. Philipe's markings that they come from Fawkener is contradicted by the notes in Courten's hand - unless, that is, Courten did sell some print before his death and these were later acquired by Fawkener.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- F,1.157