Celadon and Amelia, a scene from Thomson's Seasons

This watercolour illustrates lines from Thomson's Seasons, which was first published in 1797 by T. Bentley for P.W. Tomkins and later in 1802 for F.J. Du Roveray: 'Young Celadon/and his Amelia were a matchless pair,/With equal virtue formed and equal grace,/The sum, distinguished by their sex alone'. (see H. Hammelmann and T.S.R. Boase, Book Illustrations in Eighteenth Century England, 1975, p. 49).