- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 20 Box D200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A servant (butcher?) with his hands on his hips looks suspicously at a fashionably dressed man as the latter crosses one arm in front of his chest completing an apologetic bow and uses the other to secretly slide a package behind his back to a thrid unidentified individual penciled in outline. The inscribed caption reads: Permit me good sir to solicit your countenance. You be damned!
- Description:
- Title penciled in below image. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Corruption, Bribes, Servants, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Corruption [art original].
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- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1803]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes
- Description:
- Title from local card catalogue. and Published stipple engraving: no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Subject (Topic):
- Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Servants playing billiards] [art original].