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Nurse and Children in the Fields: P.15022-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Nurse and Children in the Fields

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Keating, George
Publisher: Smith, John Raphael
Painter: Morland, George (After)

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Description

After the painting by Morland (c.1791; according to information in the British Museum records for Keating's print after this painting, Nurse and Children in the Fields was a companion picture to Morland's earlier work, The Kite Entangled, after which a mezzotint was engraved by William Ward and published by J. R. Smith, June 19, 1790). A nurse wearing a mob cap is seated in profile facing right, receiving wild flowers offered up by a young girl seated at the centre and a boy seated on the ground in the left foreground. A third child, an older girl, stands and watches on the right. A large tree in the background, the boy's hat upturned on the ground at lower centre.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: 1791-04-01 AD 1791

Note

Mezzotint. Scratched letter proof with narrow margins. Artists' names at lower left and right: 'Painted by G. Morland' and lower right: 'Engraved by G. Keating'. Title scratched in uppercase roman letters : 'NURSE AND CHILDREN IN THE FIELDS'. Publication details scratched faintly at lower centre: 'London, Publish'd 1st April 1791 by J.R. Smith, N 31 King Street Covent Garden'. Inscribed on the verso in graphite: 'CBM [Charles Brinsley Marlay]'; 'Not in J.C.S. [Chaloner Smith]'. An impression engraved with closed letters is in the collection of the Natinoal Gallery of Washington; 2001.118.16.

School or Style

Irish

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.15022-R
Primary reference Number: 240084
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): 6.2 (p.547)
Baily (Morland): p.128
Chaloner Smith: undescribed
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Nurse and Children in the Fields" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/240084 Accessed: 2024-03-29 05:35:03

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