Breaking the Ice

Engraver John Rubens Smith American
After George Morland British
Publisher John Raphael Smith British

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In this winter subject a family is shown outside their thatched cottage, and the man breaks ice on a pond to fill a basin. In a field, a donkey in a field watches from behind a fence. Plate 9 of a series.

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