Winter [drawing].

Accession number: 
PML 146669, p. 202 (facing)
Author: 
Meijer, Hendrik, 1737-1793.
Published: 
1784.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title supplied by cataloger.
Inlaid into bound leaf measuring 18 3/8 x 14 inches (465 x 354 mm).
Bound into v. 2 of library's copy of James Thomson's The seasons (PML 146669), facing p. 202.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

In pencil at lower left, "Meyer"; in ink on verso, "Hr. Meyer inv. & fecit. 1784".

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing shows a winter scene beside a thatched cottage and village church, with an open horse-drawn sleigh crossing a stone bridge in the foreground, and a man pushing a skid loaded with firewood; at left, a small boat with single mast sits grounded in the snow.

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