A young woman is met by a Scottish guardsman at a stile outside a cottage while her mother or guardian sleeps at her spinning wheel. Stipple engraving, 1806.

Date:
1806
Reference:
2491690i
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Description

The young woman raises her finger to her lips to indicate silence, in order not to awaken the older woman. The man wears a shako (?) with a feather and a band of plaid

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1806.

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, with etching ; image 58.5 x 44 cm

Notes

Catalogued from an impression trimmed to the image and without lettering except for the date 1806

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2491690i

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