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Summer

Maker

(artist)
1756-1819

(engraver)
1749-1806

R. Morison & Son (publisher)

Title

Summer

Date of Production

8 January 1793

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Length: 21.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3928

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

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Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left margin, printed: "C. Caton Pinxt."; lower right margin, printed: "F. Chesham Sculpt."; lower centre margin, printed: "SUMMER. / Published as the Act directs by R. Morison & Son. Perth. January 8th 1793." lower centre, printed: "Meantime their joyous task goes on apace: / Some mingling stir the melted tar, and some / Deep on the new shorn vagrant's heaving side, / To stamp the master's cypher ready stand; / Others th' unwilling wether drag along; / And, glorying in his might, the sturdy boy / Holds by the twisted horns th' indignant ram."; lower centre margin, pen (later Witt inscription): "C. CATTON"

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