Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.10.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 18.5 x 29.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm., and Watermark: J. B[...?] 180[?].
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript identification below plate., Publication date inferred from: A. Pond's Collection of early caricatures engraved from the works of Pietro Leone Chezzi and others., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides and at the bottom except for the area of Walpole's identification of subject., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Alternative Title:
Printing house at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title from original drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; also the title of a later state with aquatint by F. Jukes., Sheet trimmed within platemark, with loss of title and printmaker's name., State before aquatinting was added?, Title handwritten on mount: Printing house at Strawberry Hill., Lewis Walpole Library: On verso, possibly in the artist's hand: The seat of the Honle. H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham., Manuscript note on verso: "The Seat of the Hon[able] H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham.", and Mounted on board image framed with gray wash-lines, to 37 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?, 1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of artist's name., A reduced copy of one of several prints published in 1771 based on the same Bunbury drawing. Cf. no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title devised by curator., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: tripod table -- Foot-stool -- Chair.
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of an earlier print after Bunbury from which this design was copied., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., A reduced copy in reverse of no. 4918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.