Stout and Plain Country Girl Being Courted by a Yodel with Pitchfork
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 5 inches (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed bottom left in pen and brown ink: "The rustic youth brown with monday toil | Heathful and strong; full as the summer rose | Brown by prevailing sons, the ruddy maid, | Half naked, swelling on the sight, and all | Her kindling graces burning o'er her cheek | Thompson/ Seasons"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection