SEPTEMBER. SEPTEMBRE.

Dateca. 1780

After work by Robert Dighton (1752-1814)

Publisher Carington Bowles 1724 - 1793

OriginEngland, London

MediumMezzotint engraving on laid paper

DimensionsOverall: 14 3/8 × 10 7/8 in (36.51 × 27.62cm)
Other (Platemark): 14 × 9 7/8 in (35.56 × 25.08cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1972-177,9

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "SEPTEMBER./ SEPTEMBRE./ R. Dighton del./ Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles,/ N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London./ Published as the Act directs, 534"Label TextThis print, representing the month of September, is part of a set of twelve prints representing the months of the year. Themed sets, such as this were popular throughout the eighteenth-century in England and America. A fashionably dressed woman is shown in the garden, cutting grapes from a vine and placing them in a large basket she carries. A large country estate is shown atop a hill in the distance. In cluster of bushes behind her, a hunter appears with dog.ProvenanceBefore 1972, the Old Print Shop (New York, NY); 1972-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).