Contadin degli stati di Parma é Modena [graphic]

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Title: Contadin degli stati di Parma é Modena [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 February 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 7 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: 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: 1 print : sheet 26.9 x 18.5 cm
Language: Italian
English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Genre: Genre prints
Etchings England London 1773
Drypoints England London 1773
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Italy
Parma.
Modena.
Italy.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Clothing & dress
Signs (Notices)
Baskets
Staffs (Sticks)
Dogs
Subjects: Peasants > Italy > Parma
Peasants > Italy > Modena
Clothing & dress > Italy
Signs (Notices)
Baskets
Staffs (Sticks)
Dogs
England > London > 1773
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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