Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., Based on the 1646 painting "The Circumcision of Christ" by Guercino., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Volume 2, page 18. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Lady Bothwell sitting beside a cot, where a child lies sleeping, her hands raised, looking down at it sorrowfully, while another sits with her back to the viewer, pouring a cup and a lady wearing a beret stands in the doorway in the background to right, looking out; in a roundel; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by F. Bartolozzi., State with publication line only. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and dedication added below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.1597., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to the ballad 'Lady Ann Bothwell's lament'., Mounted on page 18 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title "Lady Bothwell's lamentation" added by Horace Walpole in ink below image, beneath which he also added the verses "Ballow, my babe, lie still and sleep, it grieves me sore to see thee weep".
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, and Pitchers
An angel with a crown of flowers on her head holds two sleeping babies in her arms as she flies to the left. The sky is drawn with a crescent moon, clouds, stars, two bats, and an owl. Below her, a rural scene with cows sleeping to right and a boy (a shepherd?) to the left, who also sleeps, his arms resting against a rock out-cropping. In the background, a man and woman walk toward a cottage, the man holding a torch to light the way. In the distance on a hill is a walled city, with smoke pouring from the building on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Bats, Cattle, Infants, Owls, Rural life, and Sleeping