George Morland; his life and works . eengraved by John Raphael Smith. His first work appearsin 1788, when he engraved Delia in the Country and Delia in Town. In 1789 he published his six plates ofthe Lsetitia series ; in 1791 African Hospitality, The Slave Trade, and A Christmas Gambol. Twovery popular pictures, Feeding the Pigs and TheReturn from Market, were his work in 1793, and Fight-ing Dogs in 1794. He did The Corn Bin in 1797,The Horse Feeder and The Milkmaid and Cowherd in 1798, and five pictures in 1799. Another picture of Feeding the Pigs was engraved by him in 1801, andhe executed f
George Morland; his life and works . eengraved by John Raphael Smith. His first work appearsin 1788, when he engraved Delia in the Country and Delia in Town. In 1789 he published his six plates ofthe Lsetitia series ; in 1791 African Hospitality, The Slave Trade, and A Christmas Gambol. Twovery popular pictures, Feeding the Pigs and TheReturn from Market, were his work in 1793, and Fight-ing Dogs in 1794. He did The Corn Bin in 1797,The Horse Feeder and The Milkmaid and Cowherd in 1798, and five pictures in 1799. Another picture of Feeding the Pigs was engraved by him in 1801, andhe executed five others in 1803. Morlands own portraitwas engraved by Smith in 1806, and five pictures in 1807,while in 1811 he reissued the Lsetitia series of 1789,and in 1814 the two African pictures originally issuedin 1791. Smith, who was one of the foremost English mezzotintengravers, was well acquainted with Morland, and sharedmany of his pleasures and adventures. Toward the latterpart of his life he fell into the habits of intemperance he. s? ^ 0 5 M (1( is ts =^ y. if. 0 a- w w *>« kJ OS o s
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