[The Easter hunt at Epping Forest] [graphic]

Description

Title: [The Easter hunt at Epping Forest] [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [25 March 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from text on reissued state, published by J. Harris on 1 March 1799; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.03.01.01.
For a slightly earlier state, before the date following printmaker's name was changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
A single design on three plates.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on page 27 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
3 prints forming 1 image : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheets 52 x 47 cm or smaller.
Sheet trimmed within plate marks.
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: 3 prints forming 1 image : visible image 57 x 140 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 27. 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 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Hunting
Horseback riding
Carriages & coaches
Chimney sweeps
Dogs
Swine
Signs (Notices)
Subjects: Hunting
Horseback riding
Carriages & coaches
Chimney sweeps
Dogs
Swine
Signs (Notices)
England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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