Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Rest from labour on sunny days].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 26/Normal/Prints/Untitled GA 2014.00698
Identifier
ark:/88435/2r36v563r
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1784.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1784
Extent
1 item ; sheet 45.6 x 35 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 150
From Imitations of Modern Drawings.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints
Depiction: Outdoor genre scene. Peasant sitting in an easy attitude perched upon the ruins of a temple, playing the flute; a pretty peasant maid is leaning beside him, with her dog at her feet.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson 1784".

Discovery Information

Subject
Peasants in art
Musicians in art
Flute players in art
Animals in art
Cows in art
Dogs in art
Sheep in art
Couples in art
Country life in art
Recreation in art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d2e6c8f5-a16f-496f-afa8-7b14a1c9c753/manifest