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Our Haymaking: We Take a Country Cottage with the Adjoining Meadow of Haygrass; Grand Parade of Volunteer Mowers; The Mowing, from "The Graphic," Summer Number

After Randolph Caldecott British
Attributed to Edmund Evans British
Attributed to Edmund Evans British

July 18, 1881

Not on view

Three rural scenes with a group of young men and women from the city renting a cottage and then mowing the adjacent meadow. Page 20.

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Title: Our Haymaking: We Take a Country Cottage with the Adjoining Meadow of Haygrass; Grand Parade of Volunteer Mowers; The Mowing, from "The Graphic," Summer Number

Artist: After Randolph Caldecott (British, Chester 1846–1886 St. Augustine, Florida)

Engraver: Attributed to Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)

Printer: Attributed to Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)

Date: July 18, 1881

Medium: Color wood engraving

Dimensions: Sheet: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985

Object Number: 1986.1180.1973

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