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Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "P2816/12"

Lettered, black ink, center left along image: "W. Hamilton R.A. Pinx.t"; center right along image: "F. Bartolozzi R.A. Sculp.t"; lower left: "Soon as the Morning rambles o'er the sky, | And unperciev'd unfolds the spreading day; | Before the ripen'd field the Reapers stand, | In fair array; each by the lass he loves, | To bebar the rougher part, and mitigate, | By nameless gentle offices her toil."; lower center: "August. | London, Publish'd Aug.t 30.th 1793, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet street."; lower right: "At once they stoop and swell the lusty shears; | While through their chearfull band the rural talk, | The rural scandal, and the rural jest, | Fly harmless, to deceive the tedius time, | And steal unfelt the sultry hours away. | Vide Thomsons Autum."