[Blouzelind] [graphic].
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17355473
Description
- Title
- [Blouzelind] [graphic].
- Creator
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Contributor
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
- Published / Created
- [28 December 1780]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from lettered state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec.
State before letters. For a lettered state bearing title, artist and printmaker names, one line of verse below title, and the publication line "Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 781.03.01.02+.
Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'.
Mounted on page 25 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 : circular image 31.0 cm, on sheet 43.4 x 34.7 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 1, page 25. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Etchings England London 1780
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching in brown ink ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Spinning apparatus
Corsages - Subjects
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Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Spinning apparatus
Corsages
England > London > 1780
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15376964
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355473
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