OCTOBER. OCTOBRE.

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: 10"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1972-177,10

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "OCTOBER./ OCTOBRE./ R. Dighton del./ Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles,/ N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London./ Published as the Act directs, 535"
Label TextThis print, representing the month of October, 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 fashionably dressed woman in riding a riding habit is shown under a tree by a wall. In the distance a group of hunters on horses and with hounds can be seen. The suggestion is that the woman has either just left the group or is about to join them.