NOVEMBER. NOVEMBRE.

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 number1972-177,11

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "NOVEMBER./ NOVEMBRE./ R. Dighton del./ Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles,/ N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London./ Published as the Act directs, 536"Label TextThis print, representing the month of November, 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 young woman fashionably attired for a winter day is out for a walk. She wears a fur trimmed cape and carries a large muff. To her immediate rear is a rustic wooden house. A bird bottle occupies a prominient place in front. To the rear a large house, perhaps a hunting lodge, can be seen. To the loung ladies right is the stump of a tree. Hung from one branch is a brace of birds, and just below them is a gun and hunter's bag.ProvenanceBefore 1972, the Old Print Shop (New York, NY); 1972-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).