The fort [graphic]

Description

Title: The fort [graphic]
Creator: Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 January 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "A sailor looks at a soldier on duty on a fort by the sea, while a civilian couple look out through a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin.
For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Mounted on page 95 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 29.8 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 95. 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 1796
Stipple engravings England London 1796
Material: stipple engraving with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Forts & fortifications
Sailors
Soldiers
Couples
Telescopes
Ships
Rifles
Daggers & swords
Subjects: Forts & fortifications
Sailors
Soldiers
Couples
Telescopes
Ships
Rifles
Daggers & swords
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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