[Two monks] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Two monks] [graphic].
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Two monks, one on the left with his hands tucked inside his sleeves at his waist, turned towards the viewer, the other in profile to right, holding a rosary at his side; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f.
State before letters. For a lettered state bearing artist and printmaker names and the publication line "Publish'd 1st April 1774", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.822.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner: HW.B. fec.
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 29.4 x 24 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 51. 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: Soft-ground etchings England London 1774
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: soft-ground etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Monks
Subjects: Monks
England > London > 1774
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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