Fat Cattle, a Sketch of Tavistock Farmyard Dedicated to the Society for Improving the Breed of Cattle
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 inches (35.9 × 25.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image: "Publish'd Jan'y 16th 1802 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street."; lettered inside image: "Ah. here's your sort! Here's your Nine Inch Fat, my boys! | O how he will cut up! as my old friend Burke said: | how he will Tallow in the cawl & on the Kidneys!"; lettered below image: "To the Society for Improving the Breed [FAT-CATTLE.] this Sketch of Tavistock Farm yard is dedicated."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.811
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
British Museum, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, 11 volumes in 12, British Museum Publications, London, no. 9912, NE55 G7 L63 A52 1978 (YCBA)