Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches (9.4 x 14 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "F. 5. 3rd .st. A fine proof"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "The Ploughman."; inscribed in graphite, center on back, written vertically downwards: "11" (encircled); inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "The Ploughman"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "MH."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.10895
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
man | women | corn | wheat | agriculture | lightning | life | musicians | shepherdess | trees | forest | vines | shepherd's crook | food | genre subject | cymbals | harp | lyre | plough (agricultural equipment) | nudes | sunset | snake | serpent | sun | sheep | horses (animals) | animal art | grazing | dancing | stump | death
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)
Publications:
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 202, no. 388a, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Christiana Payne, Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 188-9, no. 92, ND1354.4 P39 1993 (YCBA)