Sweet Poll of Plymouth [graphic]

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Title: Sweet Poll of Plymouth [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: Two sailors stand behind a stout woman with a mischievous look on her face and eagerly attempt to embrace her. A soldier wearing a tricorne and carrying a musket stands on the right and watches the scene. An arched passageway is visible on the wall in the background; a low pylon with chains attached is seen on the far left
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 94 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 30.0 x 24 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 94. 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): Sailors
Soldiers
Rifles
Subjects: Sailors
Soldiers
Rifles
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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