Autolycus selling his wares Shakespear's Winters tale, Act IV, Scene 3d / [graphic]

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Title: Autolycus selling his wares Shakespear's Winters tale, Act IV, Scene 3d / [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 June 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
Abstract: "A man dancing in the centre of a crowd of villagers, waving ribbons in the air and with a tray of his goods around his neck, including toys and ballad sheets, a cottage behind at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 101 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 41.3 x 55 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 101. 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 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Engravings England London 1790
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving in bistre ink ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic): Peddlers
Toys
Dance
Ribbons
Crowds
Dwellings
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
Peddlers
Toys
Dance
Ribbons
Crowds
Dwellings
England > London > 1790
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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