Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
Description:
Title from local card catalog record., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants., Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions., and Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 146 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Two young women sit near a secluded stand of trees looking at each other. The one on the right rests her arm on a picnic basket as she turns left to look at her companion who is stretched out behind her on the ground, a large white shawl draped over her head as she rests her check on her hand
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 51. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two monks, one on the left with his hands tucked inside his sleeves at his waist, turned towards the viewer, the other in profile to right, holding a rosary at his side; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of lettered state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., State before letters. For a lettered state bearing artist and printmaker names and the publication line "Publish'd 1st April 1774", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.822., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner: HW.B. fec.
Title devised by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, and Sick persons