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Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British, Stout and Plain Country Girl Being Courted by a Yodel with Pitchfork, undated
- Title:
Stout and Plain Country Girl Being Courted by a Yodel with Pitchfork
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: Same subject as recto
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 × 5 inches (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed bottom left in pen and brown ink: "The rustic youth brown with monday toil | Heathful and strong; full as the summer rose | Brown by prevailing sons, the ruddy maid, | Half naked, swelling on the sight, and all | Her kindling graces burning o'er her cheek | Thompson/ Seasons"
Watermark: [WHA] TMAN
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.11
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- courtship | genre subject | man | pitchfork | rake | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1656
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