"Garden Seats"

Description

One matted aquatint from the illustrated British periodical Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics, more commonly known as Ackermann's Repository for Art or Ackermann's. Titled "Garden Seats," the aquatint depicts two different garden seats. The top seat resembles a large umbrella with a bench underneath and the bottom seat resembles a tend with a bench underneath. The top image shows bushes in the foreground, a man and a woman standing next to the seat, and a boat on the water in the background. The bottom image shows flowers in the foreground, a mother and daughter sitting on the seat, and trees and fields in the background. Underneath the title, the following is printed: "No. 9, of R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY of ARTS & Pub. Sept 1 1816." In the top left corner of the recto, the following is typed: "Plate 13, Vol. II."