Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.01.02.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire showing three men all with caricatured faces stand in front of two men, one of whom is obese and points to them, sit at a table. Behind them pinned to the wall are a map and portrait. Two dogs, one large and black and the other small and white, raise their paws at each other
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state, with slight alterations to the design. For an earlier state with less drypoint shading, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 773.01.02.02.1+., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject., and Watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Leaf 51. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Front and back figures of an East Indian soldier in uniform, holding a bayoneted musket
Description:
Title etched below image., Another state, with plate number changed from '15' to '16.' See Library of Congress, call no. PC 3 - 1773 - Seapoys - of the 3d battalion (A size) [P&P]., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "16" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: East India -- Seapoy's uniform., First of two plates on leaf 51., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 22, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 51. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Front and back figures of an East Indian soldier in uniform, holding a bayoneted musket
Description:
Title etched below image., Another state, with plate number changed from '15' to '16.' See Library of Congress, call no. PC 3 - 1773 - Seapoys - of the 3d battalion (A size) [P&P]., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "16" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: East India -- Seapoy's uniform., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 22, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 January 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.01.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief hangs over the doctor's cut right thumb. Behind him on the left stands Mr. Shandy, in dressing-gown and night-cap, smoking a long pipe, he is frowning and holds out his left hand in protest at the doctor's curses. Uncle Toby, his crutch under his left arm, stands on the right. pointing with his left hand at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head. He turns to speak to Corporal Trim, who stands (right) at attention in profile to the left holding a long broom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Text below title: Vide Tris. Shandy, vol. 2d., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: "May all the angels & archangels, principalities and powers, & all the heavenly armies curse & damn him ...", One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils -- Dr. Slop., and Watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 30th Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes