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Image number: RS.9188
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'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay'
Date
1774
Creator
Charles Grignion I (1717 - 1810, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
81550
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 232mm
width (print): 262mm
width (print): 262mm
Subject
Description
'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay'. A family with four children and a woman sit around a hearth in left foreground, a man weaves on a loom in left background. Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides, by Thomas Pennant (Chester, 1774).
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer was the author of a number of popular travel narratives of Britain, in the eighteenth century. He first made a tour of Scotland in 1769.
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer was the author of a number of popular travel narratives of Britain, in the eighteenth century. He first made a tour of Scotland in 1769.
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