[A dancing bear] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A dancing bear] [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [21 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description: Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue.
Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark, partially trimmed: A. Stace 1801.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; 1961.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.4 x 26.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1801
Drypoints England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Trained animals
Chains
Wind instruments
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Trained animals
Chains
Wind instruments
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1774
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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