A family picture [graphic]

Description

Title: A family picture [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
Published / Created: [1781?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date based on printmaker's known address.
Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
No. 3 in an album of 10 prints.
Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Provenance: Given to the Lewis Walpole Library by Shepard Krech in memory of Annie Burr Lewis who died 9 May 1959; May 1959; With the bookplate of Shepard Krech, engraved by E.B. Bird.
Extent: 1 print : on sheet 26 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1781
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Artists
Birds
Families
Paintings
Pets
Subjects: Artists
Birds
Families
Paintings
Pets
England > 1781
England > London > 1781

Access: Public
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