Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Pages 139, 141, 143. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
still image
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 later state, with the date following printmaker's name changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 785.03.25.01., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on pages 139, 141, and 143 of: Bunbury album., and Individual plates of the design are mounted on separate pages, instead of being joined at their ends to create a single image.
Plate 58. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The scene is the courtyard of the "Old Angel In", a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; a crowd of election campaigners at the far end of the inn"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Country inn yard
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Date from Paulson: 26 June 1747., Lower left corner, below image: "Price one shilling"., 1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 30.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 36.3 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 58 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)