- Title:
- The Cottagers
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 20 3/4 x 16in. (52.7 x 40.6cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxt. | Rich in content, in natures bounty rich, | Nor bleating mountains; nor the chide of streams, | And hum of bees, inviting sleep sincere | into the guiltless breast beneath the shade, | or thrown at large amid the fragrand hay; | Nor ought besides of prospect, grove or song,"; lettered, lower right: "F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt. | Din grottos, gleaming lakes, & fountain clear, | Here to dwells simple truth; plain innocence | Unsully'd beatuty; sound unbroen youth,| Patient of labour, with a little pleas'd; | Health ever blooming; unambitious soil. | Vide Thomson's Autumn."; lettered, lower center: "THE COTTAGERS. | No. 4, Macklins British Poets. | London, Publish'd Feby, 6th, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10364
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26420
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Ian Haywood, Romanticism and Illustration, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, p. 208, fig. 8.3, NC978 .R64 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]