March.

Date1767

Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

MediumHand-colored mezzotint engraving

DimensionsOH: 14 5/8" x OW: 10 5/8"; Plate H: 13 7/8" x W: 9 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1941-239

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "March./ Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.y 1767./ LONDON, Printed for ROB.T SAYER, at N.o 53 in Fleet Street."Label TextThis print, depicting the month of March, 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. The set follows the conventions of the genre: featuring fashionable and seasonally dressed young women engaging in leisure activities that are appropriate for each month. In this print for March, a young woman walks along a river, attired in cape with fur trim, carrying a muff, and wearing a large flat straw hat, over a cap. There is a windmill in the distance and a small sail boat being carried by the strong March wind on the water. Trees bend with the obvious strength of the wind.Inscription(s)Upper right: "91"ProvenanceBefore 1941, Bland Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY); 1941-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).