Italian-style garden landscape Size:XL: 90 x 60cm 'Summer Fashions for 1844'

'Summer Fashions for 1844'

With boats on the river and figures on the riverbank

Taken from John Gay's Fables

showing a procession with waggons going into the Tower of London loaded with the treasure taken from the Spaniards by Baron George Anson following his voyage to the Pacific in 1740-44 and the capture of a Spanish galleon

Italian-style garden landscape Size:XL: 90 x 60cm 'Summer Fashions for 1844'Garden landscape with promenading figures. A central avenue of poplar trees leads to a domed gate house in the middle distance. To the left foreground is a portico through which four visitors enter the scene and on the balcony above, two onlookers. A short flight of steps with two ladies in conversation at the top leads to the avenue. In the centre foreground are a group of three men with a dog and further to the right a gentleman with a black servant