Saturday morning Favorite Chickens going to market; Saturday evening The Husbandman's return from labour

by After William Redmore Bigg

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine pair of colour-printed stipple engravings: rural idylls in 18th-century England. In the first a family is seen outside the front door of their house set in a largely wooded landscape. The two eldest children prepare for the trip to market. The boy feeds the donkey, whilst his sister gestures to her younger sister to pass her the last of four chickens she is putting in a basket ready for the journey. The two youngest daughters are comforted by their mother as they mourn

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