Miss Walpole [graphic]

Description

Title: Miss Walpole [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 January 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', an infantry soldier standing pointing and directed to left, holding rifle against left elbow, wearing cocked hat on powdered hair with a cockade, a thatched cottage in background to right with a sign lettered 'CW', the tents of a military camp in a field down the hill to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Early state, before title changed to "Nancy" and before verses added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.130.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.7 x 17.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English