Accession number:
PML 9919.1
Published:
[England : s.n., 18--]
Description:
1 print : wood engraving ; image: approx. 79 x 148 mm; sheet: 140 x 214 mm
Notes:
After a painting by Joseph Atkinson.
Caption text reads: The above woodcut was executed by Thomas Bewick for H. N. Reay, Esq., and was used as an illustration for that gentleman's "Sportsman's friend," Newcastle, 1801. It is printed from a stereotype belonging to the Rev. Thomas Hugo, taken from the original wood block in his possession.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by or after Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
Summary:
Print shows a pony standing on a bank in three-quarter profile to left, with reins secured to the ground with a wooden peg; wading cow drinking from a stream at left; a boy herding two sheep behind; two cottages in middle ground
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