Description
Signed and inscribed on the mount, pencil and watercolour
Dimensions
33cm x 25.5cm (13in x 10in)
Footnote
Provenance: Sotheby's London 1978
The picture illustrates the popular ballad 'The Banks of the Shannon.' It was engraved and published in 1787 and in a later edition in 1799 by Bowles and Carver, a copy of which is in the British Museum.