Spring

Publisher P. Stampa British
August 26, 1800
Not on view
A man and a woman stroll through a garden, he holding a bunch of flowers and gesturing at a flowering bush, she holding a parasol. Behind them a boy hands a nest of baby birds to a young girl. In the distance is a river landscape.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Spring
  • Engraver: Anonymous, British, late 18th–early 19th century
  • Publisher: P. Stampa (British, active 1798–1817)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: August 26, 1800
  • Medium: Hand-colored mezzotint
  • Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in. (35 x 25 cm)
    image: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. (31.5 x 24.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.539.92
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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