Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly doctor wearing a wig rides a wretched-looking horse. The rider looks fierce; pulling on the reins, he looks ready to use his whip to slash the sorry horse
Alternative Title:
Doctor Dawdle in a hurry
Description:
Title from later state., Title written in pencil beneath image., Early state, before title engraved below image. For the later state bearing title, see no. 6142 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Printed on a single sheet with: Symptoms of running away / Js. Bretherton f. Dated January 9, 1782., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., 1 print : etching and drypoint with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 8 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Duke of Grafton.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Printing date of ca. 1806 conjectured from another print (Earl Nugent) in series on similar paper and with dated watermark. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 782.05.14.01.3 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Mounted on page 13 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., May be a later state. Figures in the lower left and upper right corners were reworked., and Watermark.
Full length portrait of the Earl of Sandwich standing facing right, wearing a sword, his left hand held inside his waistcoat, the right in the pocket
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 13.4 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 9 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Lord Sandwich.
Full length portrait of the Earl of Sandwich standing facing right, wearing a sword, his left hand held inside his waistcoat, the right in the pocket
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Numbered '24' in an unidentified contemporary hand in upper right corner, recto.
Watercolor of the view from the east of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, with two men pulling a lawn roller across the grass
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Another larger drawing of this view: Strawberry Hill chiefly taken in the year 1769 by Mr. Sandby. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 769.00.0077dr++., Drawing that was later used as the basis of an engraving entitled "East front of Strawberry Hill" that appeared in the 1784 edition of: A description of the villa of Horace Walpole., and Paul Sandby (bap. 1731-1809), English artist and architect.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Pen and black ink architectural drawing of an elevation of a gothic room featuring columns, profiles of cornice molding, a detail of a fleur-de-lis or Strasburg lily, and a single window with intersecting lattice work
Alternative Title:
Elevation of a gothic room of three bays by two, with gothic ornaments and cornices
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Quatrefoils, Cornices, Architectural decorations & ornaments, Fleur-de-lis, and Floor plans
