The first Scene of the Maid of the Mill, as Designed

by Mr. Richards. Fine large engraving by William Woollett 1735-1785 after the painting by John Inigo Richards 1731-1810 by Samuel Arnold

$550 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Large oblong folio. Image size 380 x 470 mm., sheet size 406 x 480 mm. Printed on ivory laid paper. The scene depicts a barn to the left with two women standing by the entrance, one of them Fanny is mending a net. There is a mill in the centre, from which a person looks out a window; a man carries a sack over a gate. A woman Patty sits reading in the upstairs window of a house to the right; Giles crosses the courtyard and gestures to the left. Very slightly

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