The blind beggar and his daughter of Bethnal Green [graphic]

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Title: The blind beggar and his daughter of Bethnal Green [graphic]
Creator: Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 August 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 20, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "The beggar kneeling to left, holding a stick, his hat on the ground in front of him, at right a dog jumping up at a woman; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"First state before letters of title filled in"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0716.240.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A blind beggar that had long lost his sight, he had a fair daughter of beauty most bright, and many a gallant brave suitor had she, for none was so comely as pretty Bessey ...
Illustration to the anonymous ballad 'The blind beggar of Bethnal Green'.
Mounted on page 99 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 39.1 x 44 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 99. 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
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1790
Engravings England London 1790
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Beggars
Blind persons
Daughters
Dogs
Subjects: Beggars
Blind persons
Daughters
Dogs
England > London > 1790
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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