Village Scene, by Lucy Brightwell (1811-1875). c.1840-47. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Height: 110 millimetres. Width: 175 millimetres. Source: British Museums Collections, image kindly released on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
According to the museum site, on which this appears as Asset no. 972264001, the etching was donated by Brightwell herself, suggesting that she was rather pleased with it. It shows the edge of a village, with two women chatting by a road which passes a river, one with a dog, the other holding a basket, and a man behind them perhaps feeding the ducks, or throwing a stick for another dog. Of the cottages in the background, one has a steep roof and a tiled lean-to. Smoke rises from its tall chimney. A person with a child can be seen in the distance, as the river winds away from the straight road, It is a typical scene, the leafy ambience much enlivened by the domestic, human element. — Jacqueline Banerjee
Bibliography
Lucy Brightwell, in the British Museum Collections. Web. 15 June 2020.
Created 15 June 2020