A band of Savoyards [graphic]

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Title: A band of Savoyards [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 September 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Sepr. 20th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "An organ grinder turning angrily to left at the sight of a soldier placing his hand on the arm of a beautiful girl from his troupe playing the mechanical organ at left, his dog at his ankles reflecting his sentiment by growling at another at the soldiers feet, behind at left a woman beating a drum and on the right a young girl plays a triangle, two friars stand behind, ogling the organ player, buildings and a church on the street behind; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on page 35 in volume 2 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 40.3 x 51 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 35. 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: Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Stipple engravings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving with etching and engraving in bistre ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Street musicians
Organ grinders
Drums (Musical instruments)
Soldiers
Monks
Dogs
Subjects: Street musicians
Organ grinders
Drums (Musical instruments)
Soldiers
Monks
Dogs
England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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