F. Jukes - "A View of Baldock in Hertfordshire" 1787

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2005.5847

Monochrome aquatint with etched detail entitled "A View of Baldock in Hertfordshire" (1787). Etching and aquatint by F Jukes (1745-1812); the figures by R Pollard. Published London "as the Act Directs. May 1 1787 by F. Jukes, No. 3 Howland Street." The fields seen here have been swallowed up by twentieth-century housing development. The figures - supplied in the studio of another artist rather than from life - show rural labourers as contented and sober folk engaged in the gentle activity of haymaking. It is instructive to this scene with Robert Dighton's views made almost at the same time on the road outside the town, or with Benjamin Green's views of South Hertfordshire. Poem below the illustration reads: "The Man of the Mill had a Daughter so fair / With so pleasing a Shape and so winning an Air / That once on the Hayfields green Bank as I stood / I thought she was Venus just sprung from the Flood."

1787

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120 transparency

1) Photo Studio

Baldock, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 12 (green).

Herts Before the Car, 2001