February.

Date1767

Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

MediumHand-colored mezzotint engraving

DimensionsOH: 14 1/2" x OW: 10 5/8"; Plate H: 13 7/8" x W: 9 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1941-238

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "February./ Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.y 2 1767./ LONDON, Printed for ROB.T SAYER, at N.o 53 in Fleet Street."
Label TextThis print, depicting the month of February, 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. The set follows the conventions of the genre: featuring fashionable and seasonally dressed young women engaging in leisure activities that are appropriate for each month. In this print, a young woman leans against a stone plinth surmounted by an urn in a wintery landscape. In the distance, men till a field.
InscribedUpper right: "90"