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Description: | Coloured mezzotint. After a second plate after ‘The Dairy Farm’, engraved by P. W. Reynolds, was published in 1801, a reviewer for ‘The Monthly Magazine’ described the image as follows:
‘[The Dairy Farm] is a view of a country farmyard, and forms a pleasant rural scene. The fore-ground is broken with a good effect; the distance is well contrived; the dogs, horse, and cows, are correctly drawn, though we think that which the woman is milking, is too lank in head as well as body for our English breed. The men and women are easy and natural in their air, but the females are rather more elegant than belongs to their situation.’
This rural scene was engraved by printmaker William Ward, after an original work by George Morland. In 1786 Morland was lodging with Ward in Kensal Green, London. In September that year he married Ward’s sister, Anne, while Ward married Morland’s sister, Maria, the following month. The two couples lived together on the High Street in Marylebone for a few months, before Morland and his wife moved to Great Portland Street. Morland continued to relocate regularly in an attempt to escape his creditors. However, the productive partnership between Morland and Ward continued for most of the artist’s career. | Subjects: | genre hill breeches 19th century costume bucket horse cow cart churn farmer/farm labourer milkmaid stockings field farm thatched roof dress cottage milking path landscape C18th dog coat | Temporal: | 1788 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | William Ward (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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