Morning Employments.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r. Del.t. P.W. Tomkins Sculp.t. London Published June 14 1784 by T. Macklin, No 59 Fleet Street & C. White Stafford Row Pimlico. Fine stipple. 430 x 395mm (17 x 15½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Very decorative scene showing three women passing the time. One plays a spinet (a small harpsichord); the second works on an embroidery, watched by a small boy; and the third winds thread onto a bobbin. Although the spinet has the name 'Thomas Kirkman', the predominant makers of the period were Jacob Kirckman (anglicised to Kirkman), with his nephew Abraham and son Joseph .
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