Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors
Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons - Brillig & Borogove | Fine Interiors

Set of Reverse Glass Mezzotints of the Four Seasons

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Item Description & Information

A set of reverse-glass, coloured mezzotints of the four seasons, each with a different inscription content below the image and title.

A. Spring**

A fashionably-dressed young woman standing to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a wreath of flowers in both hands, her left elbow resting on the plinth of a fountain decorated with two entwined dolphins; a colonnaded portico in the background to left.

Inscription reads: (Left) J. Williams Pinxit /(Right) James McArdell Fecit - London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.

B. Summer 

A fashionably-dressed young woman sitting against a grass verge, directed to left and head tilted to right, looking towards the viewer, holding corn/wheat in her apron, a sickle in in her left hand, resting on a bushel of wheat/corn; men working in a hay-field in the background to left.

Inscription reads: (Left) S. Wale delin/(Right) R. Houston et fecit - London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.

C. Autmn

A well-dressed young woman shown glancing towards the viewer as she holds a basket of apples. Behind on the right a man stood up a ladder plucking apples from a tree as three women seem to be gather the apples. 

Inscription reads: James Mc.Ardell delin et fecit - London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornell.

D. Winter

A fashionably-dressed young woman standing to right, one hand at her throat, holding close the edges of her fur-trimmed cloak, her other hand in a small muff at waist level; a stone gateway to right, skaters and town buildings in the background to left.

Inscription reads: (Left) Wale delin/(Right) R. Houston et fecit - London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.

Kindly see the website of the British Museum for the original set. 

A. Museum Number 2010,7081.488

B. Museum Number 2010,7081.489

C. Museum Number 2010,7081.490

D. Museum number 2010,7081.491

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