Volume 1, page 10b. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A grinning man with a long queue stands facing right, holding a pair of shears in his left hand. He holds wooden box that serves as a stool in his right hand, and under his right arm is a struggling dog. Behind him, in the upper left, hangs a sign with three fleur-de-lis that is lettered "LA VENGEANCE De crotteur royal Tond des CHIENS Proprement".
Description:
Title, printmaker, and publication date supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a version of this design in reverse, published 25 April 1771 by M. Darly, see no. 4668 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 10b in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puritan dress, is assailed by two women. On the right an old woman touches his arm and points to the church with a volume, unlabeled in this working proof but later lettering "Whitefield's Hymns". On the left, a pretty, young woman lures him toward the public house. He eyes the young woman as he holds up his one hand deprecatingly toward the older woman
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Finished print lettered with title and inscriptions: "J. Collet pinxt. / J. Goldar sculpt. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street & Jno. Smith No. 35, Cheapside, as the Act directs Jan. 1. 1773.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 52 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)