Love and hope [graphic]

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Title: Love and hope [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "Two women standing either side of a gate, looking over to a soldier seated on a hummock and holding a rifle at left, a church tower in the distance; oval design, after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below title, from Lord Lyttelton's translation of parts of an elegy of Tibullus: With thee my love to pass my tranquil days, how would I slight ambitions painfull praise, by beauty held in strong, but gentle chains, far from tumultuous war, & dusty plains. Lyttelton.
Companion print to: Love and jealousy.
Mounted on page 48 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 : oval image 32.4 x 38 cm, on sheet 40.4 x 46 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 48. 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 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Engravings England London 1786
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving in bistre ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
Tibullus
Subject (Topic): Gates
Soldiers
Rifles
Subjects: Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773 > Illustrations
Tibullus > Illustrations
Gates
Soldiers
Rifles
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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