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Description: | Cottage scene. On the far left a woman sits spinning. She illuminated by daylight from a small window. Behind her in the centre of the painting is a fireside with three children around a fire with a cauldron on top. There are jugs and candlesticks on the mantlepiece. Meat and fowl hang from ceiling. To the far right another group of females hard at work carding and lacemaking with a latticed window behind them. 3 pots to right foreground.
Technique: mezzotint
medium: ink (black)
The Industrious Cottager by W. Ward after J. Ward. 1920.267. | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.101062 | Go to resource |
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