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Direct scan of object
Summer
Direct scan of object

Summer

Date1760-1765
After work by Robert Pyle
Engraver James Watson
Publisher Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793)
MediumBlack and white mezzotint engraving
DimensionsOH: 15" x OW: 11 1/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1947-477,2
DescriptionLower margin reads: "R. Pyle Pinx.t/ Ja.s Watson fecit./ Here ripening Summer all her Charms displays, / And bids her Farmer hope successful Days, / who from his Rural Cott, each Azure Morn / With pleasure views his Fields of yellow Corn./ Summer./
Pritned for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard London."
Label TextOne of a set of four prints depicting the seasons. A lovely young woman attired in a summer light dress, cap and hat appears in a setting of fields. She holds shafts fo grain in her hands, and there are others close at hand. A strange affect of small tambourine handing from a branch of a tree, is shown behind her.