Courier Francois [graphic]

Description

Title: Courier Francois [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: July 1st, 1771.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by T. Scratchley accor. to act
Abstract: A French courier rides a galloping post-horse to the left while raising his whip; a building with the sign "Poste Royale" is visible in the background
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
T. Scratchley is the pseudonym of Matthias Darly.
One of several prints after Bunbury of similar design and varying size. See no. 5056 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
On leaf 22.
1 print : etching with rocker and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.2 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Language: English
French

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 22. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with rocker and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Messengers
Horseback riding
Whips
Subjects: Messengers
Horseback riding
Whips
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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