Moses [graphic]

Description

Title: Moses [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [27 February 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Abstract: "A stout, complacent-looking man rides a small horse in profile to the left. He has a very bad seat and is pulling hard on the curb; the animal puts down its head. A servant on a rough-looking pony canters behind him, carrying a basket of hay and a triangular box or package (perhaps his master's hat-box) under his left arm. The scene is a country road, with a signpost (left) pointing 'To Hackney, To Isling[ton'], and (down a turning on the right of the riders) to 'Shoredi[tch]'. The post stresses the idea conveyed in the drawing, that this is a citizen riding to or from his country-box in the suburbs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Jan. 1783. Cf. no. 6339 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image in lower right.
Watermark.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29 x 41 cm, on sheet 36 x 55 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Black people
Horseback riding
Servants
Subjects: Black people
Horseback riding
Servants
England > 1783
England > London > 1799

Access: Public
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