Black-eyed Susan [graphic]

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Title: Black-eyed Susan [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, a man rowing at left, land and ships on the sea behind; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'.
Two lines of verse etched below title: Her less'ning boat, unwilling rows to land; Adieu! she cries, and wav'd her lily hand. Gay.
Companion print to: Blouzelind.
Temporary local subject terms: Ballads.
Mounted on page 23 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 40.5 x 35.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 23. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Rowboats
Dogs
Farewells
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Rowboats
Dogs
Farewells
England > London > 1792
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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