The Fleecy Charge.Now Shepherds; to your helpless charge be kind ...
G. Moreland Pinx.t. G. Shepheard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd June 7th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with etching, printed in brown, with hand colour. Sheet 390 x 455mm (15¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some colour bleed at sides.
The interior of a barn, with a man carrying in a bundle of hay in for his sheep, talking to another who stands by the doorway, through which a snow-covered tree can be seen. This seems to be a colouring guide: it is printed on a progress proof of Robert Freebairn's ''A View of the Bay of Naples, The City of Pozzuoli, the Elysian Fields, the Stygean Lake, and Cape of Miseno'', with the etched outline before the addition of aquatint, so not a commercial printing.
[Ref: 54260] £360.00
London, Publish'd June 7th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with etching, printed in brown, with hand colour. Sheet 390 x 455mm (15¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some colour bleed at sides.
The interior of a barn, with a man carrying in a bundle of hay in for his sheep, talking to another who stands by the doorway, through which a snow-covered tree can be seen. This seems to be a colouring guide: it is printed on a progress proof of Robert Freebairn's ''A View of the Bay of Naples, The City of Pozzuoli, the Elysian Fields, the Stygean Lake, and Cape of Miseno'', with the etched outline before the addition of aquatint, so not a commercial printing.
[Ref: 54260] £360.00