Title: [Welch Farmer / Hay Making] signed IWH [J.W. Harding]
Description: Old couple in foreground, 2 children behind harvesting, horse with drag cart (car llusg), mountains in the distance.
(1) girl with felt hat, loose gown, striped skirt, stockings down to the ankle and bare feet
(2) boy with ?waistcoat, breeches, stockings
(3) Man with felt hat, jacket, neckerchief, breeches, striped stockings, gaiters, boots
(4) Woman with felt hat, kerchief around her head, ?hooded cloak, skirt, shoes.
Note: Published in Sketches in North Wales, Books of Views no 14, (1810) and (1812) with five other views of Welsh costume. All the women in the set are shown wearing loose voluminous V or round-necked bedgowns like some of the women’s costumes shown in prints published by Peter Roberts, 1815.
The prints were possibly designed to be mounted on board with a descriptive text on the reverse (there four of these thus mounted in the National Museum of Wales).
The full-page text which accompanied the print is critical of out-dated Welsh farming practices and suggests that the government should publish advice to help make improvements.
Medium: print
Size: paper: 28.2 x 25.2 cms; image: 26.1 x 23.5 cms
Artist: Harding, J.W.,
Engraver: Harding, J.W.,
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Anon
Date: 1810