A winding road on which a traveller with a staff asks a resting traveller where the road goes to. Etching by T. Major, 1752, after G. Dughet (Poussin).

London (at the Golden Head in West Street) : Sold by T. Major ingraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Publish'd Jan.y 25. 1752 accord.g to Act of Parl.t.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 36 x 44.5 cm

Ingraved from an original painting of G. Poussin 1 foot 9 inches wide by 15 inches high. In the collection of B. Cleeve esq.r G. Poussin pinx. ; T. Major sculp.t Bears number: No. 2

Possibly in series with Wellcome Library no. 3055138i, by Major after Claude, also dated 1752 and bearing the number 1

Wellcome Collection 3055862i

After a painting then in the possession of Bourchier Cleeve. In his will of 1759 he mentioned his paintings in a section containing the clauses "And as my said wife hath not much taste for pictures I give and bequeath all and singular my pictures and paintings at my said house at Foots Cray aforesaid unto the said neighbour Frith and James Walton upon trust ... in case my said wife shall at any time after my decease request the said trustees by writing under her hand to sell the said pictures and paintings I will that the same same shall not be sold by auction but to some person of quality rank or fortune whom they my said trustees may think likely to keep them for posterity and in such case I will that the same be not sold for a less sum than seven thousand guineas" (National Archives, Kew, PROB 11/853/529)