Summer

Date1760-1765

After work by Robert Pyle

Engraver James Watson

Publisher Carington Bowles 1724 - 1793

OriginEngland, London

MediumBlack and white mezzotint engraving

DimensionsOH: 15" x OW: 11 1/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1947-477,2

DescriptionLower margin reads: "R. Pyle Pinx.t/ Ja.s Watson fecit./ Here ripening Summer all her Charms displays, / And bids her Farmer hope successful Days, / who from his Rural Cott, each Azure Morn / With pleasure views his Fields of yellow Corn./ Summer./
Pritned for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard London."Label TextOne of a set of four prints depicting the seasons. A lovely young woman attired in a summer light dress, cap and hat appears in a setting of fields. She holds shafts fo grain in her hands, and there are others close at hand. A strange affect of small tambourine handing from a branch of a tree, is shown behind her.ProvenanceBefore 1947, Cecil A. Halliday (Oxford, England); 1947-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).