IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240129 accession number: P.15101-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Thursday 9 January 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After a pastel drawing of this composition, c.1720-80, of which there are three known works, the most detailed being that in a Private Collection in Milan (Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists, J.21.1312; Sani, 2007, cat. no. 356. This work features the foliage and tree trunk as reproduced in Watson's print); a version with the title 'L'Éte' (Summer) and with a pendant, Autumn was sold at the Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1987 (Jeffares, J.21.1309. This work also features the foliage and trunks, but to a lesser degree)) and a copy sold at Sotheby's, London in 1975 (Jeffares, J.21.1314)). Half-length, to waist, female figure facing left, head turned to address the spectator. She wears rustic dress with light-coloured chemise and bodice over with lacing at the front. She holds a peach in her right hand and carries several others in a cloth/apron in front. A shadowy background with a tree trunk visible behind and to the right. The mezzotints by James Watson and James Wilson (Chaloner Smith, 22; see P.15110-R) after this work are known by the title, 'Peach Girl', but the original work has been associated subsequently with Carriera's several allegorical representations of The Four Seasons, as a personification of Summer (The Matthiesen Gallery assigned the title, 'An allegory of Summer, a girl holding peaches', to the work). An old inscription of 'Autumn' on the verso of this print also relates to this idea. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in graphite probably relates to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240129 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Watson, James maker: Watson, James maker: Carriera, Rosalba