The County Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

Made:
1845 in Manchester urban district

Print. The County Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England [at Bristol, 1842]. / Painted by R. Anstell; engraved by S.W. Reynolds. - Published by Thomas Agnew, Manchester, 12 November 1845. - Engraving, mixed process; image [sight] 45x130cm, in wood frame 70.5x142.5x3.5cm. - After a painting 6 feet high x 17 feet wide by Richard Anstell (1815-1885), commissioned by and in collection of the RAS London (permanent loan from Salford City Art Gallery). - Group portrait depicting more than 120 members of the Society, and others, in a landscape setting and arranged behind a foreground of agricultural implements. Including Lyon Playfair, Justus Liebig, John Spencer Viscount Althorp the Society's Founder-President, gentlemen farmers, Scottish farming interests. Breeds of livestock not represented excepting for working dogs, and horses including Clydesdale and Suffolk Punch. Some 18 implements shown, drawn from range exhibited in previous meetings, emphasising primary concern for land cultivation: moulding plough for land drainage; Cottam's cycloidal grubber; Charlbury subsoil plough; Ducie's cultivator; Smith's subsoil; Wilkie's swing plough; dibbling machine, turnip cutter, dynamometer for measuring plough haulage needs; horse hoes; cultivastor, chain harrow, Suffolk swing plough, chaff machine, bruising machine

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
1983-698
Measurements:
overall: 710 mm x 1420 mm x 50 mm,
type:
print and portrait
credit:
Grosvenor Prints