AUGUST. AOUT.

Dateca. 1780

After work by Robert Dighton (1752-1814)

Publisher Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793)

OriginEngland, London

MediumMezzotint engraving on laid paper

DimensionsOH: 14 3/8" x OW: 10 7/8"; Plate H: 14" x W: 9 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1972-177,8

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "AUGUST./ AOUT./ R. Dighton del./ Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles,/ N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London./ Published as the Act directs, 533"
Label TextThis print, representing the month of August, is part of a set of twelve prints representing the months of the year. Themed sets, such as this were popular throughout the eighteenth-century in England and America. A fashuionably dressed young woman stands beside a pool. She carries a fishing pole and cannister (for fish?). A mill is seen in the distance and some sheaves of wheat, suggesting the end of harvest.