Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].

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Title: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs [graphic].
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Contributor: Watson & Dickinson, printmakers.
Published / Created: [between 1765 and 1792]
Publication Place: Strawberry Hill
Abstract: An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description: Title vignette.
Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1].
Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 8, 50 to H.G. Bohn; (London, 733). With armorial bookplate of Horace Walpole. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 2 volumes : 63 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Portrait prints
Genre prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1770-1779
Etchings England London
Stipple engravings England
Watercolors British 18th century
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Material: etchings (some hand-colored), pencil drawings, engravings ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic): English wit and humor, Pictorial
Animals
Horseback riding
Horses
Jumping (Horsemanship)
Peasants
Subjects: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
English wit and humor, Pictorial > Early works to 1800
Animals
Horseback riding
Horses
Jumping (Horsemanship)
Peasants
England > 1770-1779
England > London
England
British > 18th century
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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Citation: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.