Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image. and Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
A lady in quasi-military dress rides a sorry horse on the road to Rumsford [Coxheath]. She is followed by her husband who is dressed as a militia officer for auxilliary forces which were frequently encamped on Cox Heath. A dog trots panting at the side of the group
Description:
Title from text inscribed in contemporary hand on verso., Date based on publication date of James Bretherton's etching after this drawing., The signpost depicted in the drawing reads 'Rumford' while the Bretherton etching changes the text to 'Coxheath', and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Signs (Notices), Military uniforms, Militias, and Dogs
A solicitor approaches a clergyman and doctor; over his head hovers a demonic creature holding a long legal document. The rotund clergyman, looking very displeased, is flanked by the head of an ass peering over his shoulder and a small dog urinating on his voluminous clerical robes. A smug looking doctor carrying a walking stick has one hand upturned pinching his index finger and thumb as if to gesture holding something while a young boy trails afterward holding a written prescription in his extended arm. A picture hanging on the wall depicts a crude drawing of a hanged man
Description:
Title from text inscribed above image., Date suggested by curator., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left
Alternative Title:
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Subject (Topic):
Conversation, Drinking vessels, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Dwellings
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A stout man, wearing a coat and a tricorne, is shown half-length; he sits at a table, a mug of frothy beer in front of him
Alternative Title:
Old England's support
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Scene from Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor, act 4, scene 2.
Alternative Title:
Falstaff's escape
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by artist on verso: Merry Wives of Windsor / Act 4- Scene 2nd / Fal[staff. No, I'll come no more i'th basket / may I not go out to[o] soon / Mrs. Page. Alas, three of another Fr[ien]ds brother." [From dealer's description]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Comedies
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A wife has chased her husband out of the house and comes up behind him, holding a broom above her head, ready to strike. He has stopped to pray, hands clasped in front of his chest. Through the open door of their house a chair and some shelves can be seen; a set of antlers hangs above the doorway. The face of another person is visible in a second-story window; they peer out at the scene, amused
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Signed in upper right corner with the artist's initials., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A thin man, dressed in macaroni fashion, stands in profile to the right, holding a cane in his right hand and a bouquet in his left hand; a sword hangs from his side. A child stands behind him, hat held out as if begging for money
Alternative Title:
This club was instituted and kept at Almacks and called the Macaroni Society
Description:
Titled by the artist in ink below image., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Volume 2, page 24. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, shown full-length, stands in a field in front of a theater, holding a dramatic mask; other masks are at her feet. Surrounding the scene is an oval frame of laurel with 'Wynnstay' on the ribbon at the bottom. A design for an admission ticket for the theater at Wynnstay, the private theater of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
Description:
Title from inscription in ink at bottom of image., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Date from local card catalog record., Mounted alongside the print made after this drawing, as well as with another related drawing, on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Original design for a print in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: C,3.149.