Madge’s attack on Bauldy

Madge’s attack on Bauldy
 1758
illustration for The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay, published by John Robertson jnr., Glasgow, 1758

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
etching
Measurements
22.7 × 18.4 cm (image) 24.1 × 19.6 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Gunn 115
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: P Sandby Invt Sculp 1758
Accession Number
864-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John H. Connell, 1917
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Violence
Subjects (specific)
assaults (personal life events) illustrations (layout features) literary characters men (male humans) pastoral Scotland (country) water wells women (female humans)

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Exhibition
British Watercolours 1760–1900

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