Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d Feby. 1782.
Call Number:
Bunbury 782.02.23.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wearing a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, is walking to left in a Parisian street with a small boy in attendance. Passers-by are amused by his lack of elegance: on the left, a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, with scissors at his waist and an apron, carries a parasol and raises his hand in surprise; a fat monk grins; an elegant man driving a cabriolet and his footman dressed in furs smile; a worker wearing loose trousers and wooden shoes folds his arms and stares; two dogs follow the Englishman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, France, and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), and Monks
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d Feby. 1782.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting English and French styles of dress. A stout middle-aged Englishman wearing a heavy coat and three-cornered hat and carrying a stick, is walking to left in a Parisian street with a small boy in attendance. Passers-by are amused by his lack of elegance: on the left, a hairdresser wearing his hair in a large queue, with scissors at his waist and an apron, carries a parasol and raises his hand in surprise; a fat monk grins; an elegant man driving a cabriolet and his footman dressed in furs smile; a worker wearing loose trousers and wooden shoes folds his arms and stares; two dogs follow the Englishman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., Mounted on page 12 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, partly hand-colored ; sheet 32.8 x 41.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, France, and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), and Monks
Image depicts a 22-member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
Alternative Title:
Victualling Committee framing a report
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from description in the British Museum catalogue of a later state., On one sheet with letterpress broadside song, The committee : a new song for the year 1782. First line: I. All you, who would guess at the word call'd committee ..., Probably an early state, with underscore line following V present in title, of a plate from which this line was later removed. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6021., and Watermark with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Savile, Christopher, ca. 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
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.