Engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 3/8 x 4 1/16 inches (6.1 x 10.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Edw. Calvert. F.2."; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "The Sheep of his Pasture"; inscribed in graphite, center right on back, written vertically downwards: "[...] [...] [...] | [...] | [...] [...] | 18[...]"; inscribed in graphite, center right on back, written vertically downwards: "ECalvert."; inscribed in graphite, center right on back, written vertically downwards: "Designed + engraved | on Copper | 1828"; inscribed in graphite, center on back, written vertically downwards: "2" (encircled); inscribed in graphite, lower left on back, written diagonally downwards: "MH."; inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "Sheep of his pasture"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.10897
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
animal art | grazing | sheep | field | sun | landscape | stream | fence | hills | bank | river | trees | house | barn | forest | pasture | wheat | corn
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. 388c, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)