Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "Little Girl | Sweet and small | Cock does crow | So do you. | Merry voice | Infant noise | Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year | Little Lamb | Here I am. | Come and lick | My white neck. | Let me pull | Your soft Wool. | Let me kiss | Your soft face. | Merrily Merrily we welcome in the Year"; Lettered on verso, inside image: "The School Boy | I love to rise in a summer morn, | When the birds sing on every tree; | The distant huntsman winds his horn, | And the sky-lark sings with me. | O! what sweet company. | But to go to school in a summer morn, | O! it drives all joy away; | Under a cruel eye outworn. | The little ones spend the day. | In sighing and dismay. | Ah! then at times I drooping sit. | And spend many an anxious hour. | Nor in my book can I take delight, | Nor sit in learnings bower, | Worn thro' with the dreary shower. | How can the bird that is born for joy | Sit in a cage and sing. | How can a child when fears annoy. | But droop his tender wing. | And forget his youthful spring. | O! father & mother, if buds are nip'd, | And blossoms blown away. | And if the tender plants are strip'd | Of their joy in the springing day, | By sorrow and cares dismay. | How shall the summer arise in joy. | Or the summer fruits appear. | Or how shall we gather what griefs des (troy | Or bless the mellowing year. | When the blasts of winter appear."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.12(15)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sheep | lamb | calf (animal) | wings | kneeling | leaf | branches | angels | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | text | grass | vegetation | trees | vines | child | children | nude