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Tullie House Museum : 1964.97.24.2
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Print, The Course of true Love never did run smooth, by Jacob Thompson, Hackthorpe, Lowther, Cumberland, 1854, engraved by William Ballingall.
Two lovers seated on the ground beside a hedge, a pile of faggots lying beside the young woman with her bonnet placed upon it. She sits with her face averted from him as he reaches out towards her. His hat lies discarded nearby. To right of composition a woman approaches, about to step over the wooden stile; she wears an expression of consternation as she catches sight of them.
The work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854.
inscription:- signed bottom left on print
JACOB THOMPSON (repeated beneath) JACOB THOMPSON
inscription:- printed bottom centre
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
inscription:- signed & inscribed bottom right on print
W. BALLINGALL SC / WM. BALLINGALL
wxh, image:- 195x133mm