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1. Cicely [graphic]
- Creator:
- Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 November 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 33. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Writing, Cats, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cicely [graphic]
2. Marian [graphic]
- Creator:
- Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 80. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourteen lines of verse below image, seven on either side of title: Last Friday's eve, when, as the sun was set, I, near yon stile, three sallow gipsies met ... Vide Gay's Pastorals., and Mounted on page 80 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets, Fences, Children, Dogs, Campfires, and Pots & pans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Marian [graphic]
3. The spell Hobnelia. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1784?]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.77+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."
- Alternative Title:
- Hobnelia
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate., Numbered '506' in lower left of plate., Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., and Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Courtship, and Meadows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The spell Hobnelia. [graphic]
4. [Marian] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd May 12th, 1781.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 31. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A maid in simple dress sitting in profile to right on a rock in a hilly landscape, holding the handle of a bucket on the ground beside her, a figure on horseback on a path about to crest the hill in the distance at right; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from later state., Initial letters form a monogram in both artist's name and printmaker's name in signatures., "First state with scratched letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.121., For a later state, published 20 May 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by E. Hedges, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3004., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Cicely., and Mounted on page 31 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women domestics, Pails, and Hills
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Marian] [graphic]