Les oyes de Frere-Philippe conte tiré de La Fontaine = Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine / [graphic]

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Title: Les oyes de Frere-Philippe conte tiré de La Fontaine = Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine
Creator: Watson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watson, Thomas, active 1781-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 October 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 3d, 1782, by T. Watson, No. 33 Strand
Abstract: "Two girls in black capes and chip hats, their hair dressed high with ringlets, playing guitars, with a couple of dogs for audience, while a young man in a plumed hat ogles them but is pushed aside by a horrified monk, behind to right, a norman castle in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title in French and English etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Six lines of verse, in French and English, etched below each title. Verses in English begin: Oh the sweet bird, cries the lad in the utmost transport of joy, prithee sing a little ...
Mounted on page 8 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 : circular image 31 cm, on sheet 41.2 x 37 cm
Language: English
French

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 8. 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 1782
Material: stipple engraving with etching in sepia ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Subject (Topic): Capes (Clothing)
Hats
Stringed instruments
Monks
Dogs
Castles & palaces
Subjects: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 > Illustrations
Capes (Clothing)
Hats
Stringed instruments
Monks
Dogs
Castles & palaces
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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