Winter
Date1760-1765
After work by
Robert Pyle
Engraver
James Watson
Publisher
Carington Bowles
1724 - 1793
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white mezzotint
DimensionsOH: 15" x OW: 11 1/2"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1947-477,4
DescriptionLower margin reads: "R. Pyle Pinx.t/ Ja..s Watson fecit/ Pleasure is fled - Save where the Ball or play, / Or Opera, invite the Young and Gay; / Now blustring Winds & rude inclement Skies, / The Tippett, Muff and Cardinal defies./ Winter./ Printed 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 is shown in a winter landscape. She wears a large hat over her cap, a cloak trimmed in ermine over her dress, and her hands drawn up under her cloak. An icy branch is hanging over her head, and an icy pond and snow-covered house stands in the distanceProvenanceBefore 1947, Cecil A. Halliday (Oxford, England); 1947-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
