[A French postillion] [graphic].

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Title: [A French postillion] [graphic].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A French postillion, wearing huge boots, gestures with his arms outspread to the right
Description: Title and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Printmaker from signature on later state: H.B. f.
Early state, before background elements, printmaker's signature, and figure's sleeve decoration added in drypoint. For a later state with these additions, see no. 4746 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.1 x 8.2 cm, on sheet 12.7 x 8.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State before drypoint additions to the plate].
Language: English