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Description: | Coloured mezzotint. The coloured mezzotint print of ‘The Shepherds’ shows a landscape with flocks of sheep in fields around farm buildings. A man, woman and young girl, carrying bundles and baskets, are talking to two shepherds, who sit under a tree in the left foreground. One of the shepherds points to the road, as though giving directions, while the other is propped on one elbow with a sheepdog beside him.
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. He had probably met the engraver through print publisher and engraver John Raphael Smith. In September that year the artist 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 and Ward engraved almost 70 plates after works by Morland. | Subjects: | hill crook 19th century costume field shepherd girl woman cottage landscape C19th path basket sheep dog boy pond Victorian genre man | Temporal: | 1806 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | William Ward (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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