[The repose] [graphic]

Description

Title: [The repose] [graphic]
Creator: Pettit, John, active 1780-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Jones, J. approximately 1745-1797, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 April 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
Abstract: "A young man in a cap sitting on a basket, smoking a pipe, a tankard in his hand, resting on his crossed legs, his right arm draped over the back of a chair at left, his hat fallen on the ground beside; circular design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from later state.
Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.440.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 62 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The repose.
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 : image diameter 29 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 36 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 62. 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: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Chairs
Baskets
Drinking vessels
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Chairs
Baskets
Drinking vessels
Pipes (Smoking)
England > London > 1787
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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