Courier francois [graphic]

Description

Title: Courier francois [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately May 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by Js. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street, as the act directs
Abstract: "Satire on a French post courier (as opposed to an English courier, see BM Satires 4736): a man on horseback, weilding a driving whip, with a small package at the front of his saddle; he rides speedily along a country road towards a building with the sign "Poste Royale" on the left, having passed a tree with a small devotional shrine."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Date of publication from British Museum online cat., registration no.: J,6.6.
Likely companion print to: Courier anglois.
Watermark.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 31 x 45 cm, on sheet 33 x 46 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: soft ground etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1774
England > London > 1774

Access: Public
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