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After the painting by Morland (c.1791; according to information in the British Museum records for Keating's print after this painting, Nurse and Children in the Fields was a companion picture to Morland's earlier work, The Kite Entangled, after which a mezzotint was engraved by William Ward and published by J. R. Smith, June 19, 1790). A nurse wearing a mob cap is seated in profile facing right, receiving wild flowers offered up by a young girl seated at the centre and a boy seated on the ground in the left foreground. A third child, an older girl, stands and watches on the right. A large tree in the background, the boy's hat upturned on the ground at lower centre.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
Title
Nurse and Children in the Fields
Date
1791
Accession number
P.15022-R
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912
Work type
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RB England
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