[Grounds of a country house with out buildings]
Published
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [17--]
etching & stipple
sheet: 217 x 339 mm
Peel 2526
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Print closely trimmed to image, with possible loss of caption text or signatures.
Print closely trimmed to image, with possible loss of caption text or signatures.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows the grounds of a country house, with "A granary" labeled at right, where a man loads a hay wagon with a "Load of hay", and two more men appear to be at work on a dovecote on the roof; two men load a wagon from a "Stack of timber" beside the granary; in the foreground, two woman are shown in the company of men, one woman holding a hen coop and the other holding up a window; two workmen at left are engaged in pulling iron bars from a wall and breaking up paving stones with a pick axe; at far right stands a "Green house" with windows and a "Hen coop" on the ground in front of the building.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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