The FarmHouse
William Spooner (fl.1831-1844)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper and linen.
Measurements
380 mm (width); 276 mm (height)
Place of origin
Strand, 377
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662825
Summary
Print, coloured, The Farm House. A picture, printed on paper backed with linen, of a farm landscape, entitled 'The Farm House'. The picture is probably a guide sheet for a game or puzzle. In the foreground is the farmhouse, barns and farmyard, with five cows by a duck pond, a woman feeding poultry, men threshing in a barn and horses. In the middle distance figures are harvesting and ploughing fields. Behind them is a windmill and a hilly, wooded landscape. The picture is printed in black, brown, blue-green, pink, yellow and dull red. There is an inscription underneath the image, which is surrounded by a border of plain paper.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Miss J C Hart in 1974.
Marks and inscriptions
Below the image: 'THE FARM HOUSE/ WITH MOWING._HAY-MAKING._PLOUGHING._THRESHING./ CARRYING CORN TO THE MILL./ London. Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand./ L'ENFANT LITH 2 RATHBONE PL'
Makers and roles
William Spooner (fl.1831-1844), engraver and publisher