A young poor Irish woman, sadly mending fishing nets or textiles outside a stone cottage, is approached by a young man; inside the cottage, a woman is spinning. Engraving after F.W. Topham.

  • Topham, Francis William, 1808-1877.
Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
3140108i
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Publication/Creation

1800-1899

Physical description

1 print : engraving, oval, en chine ; sheet 53 x 41.6 cm, platemark 55.5 x 44.5 cm

Lettering

FWT 1849 Bears F.W. Topham's initials and the date within the painting

Edition

[State without letters].

Creator/production credits

F.W. Topham "soon took peasant life as a favourite—sometimes sentimental—subject, and in 1844 and 1845 he visited the west of Ireland with his fellow painters Frederick Goodall and Alfred Fripp. This led to further tours in Ireland in 1860 and 1862 and to Scotland and Snowdonia, where from 1852 he was a regular member of the artists' colony at Betws-y-coed"--Oxford dictionary of national biography

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3140108i

Type/Technique

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