A young man sleeps reclining on a chaise-longue, his wig removed and placed on a chair to the left. A richly dressed young woman standing behind the chair leans forward looking at him with a sceptical expression on her face. On the other side, another young woman leans close to him, upsetting in the process a table on which a black servant was about to place a tea tray. In the background on the right, a serving maid walks into the room, her arms raised in alarm
Description:
Title from item., Second line of title and publisher from an impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of the second line of title and imprint., and One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
Title from item., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., Publication date of the state published by Smith and Sayer. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 4603., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: street vendor -- Food: vegetables -- Domestic service: lady's maid -- Containers: large basket., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, mostly trimmed.
Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding a dog
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item., With the imprint statement: London Pubd, as the Act directs 1st. March 1796 by Colnaghi & Co. (late Torres) No. 127 Pall Mall., and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 70 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 17 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving, etching, and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 38.0 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 March 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 56. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse, from William Shenstone's ballad 'Jemmy Dawson', engraved below title: Come listen to my mournful tale, ye tender hearts and lovers dear; nor will you scorn to heave a sigh, nor need you blush to shed a tear. Vide Shenston., Dedication engraved above imprint statement: To the Countess Sutherland this plate after an original Drawing by Mr. Bunbury, in her Ladyship's possession, is with the greatest respect dedicated by her Ladyship's most obliged humble servant, James Bretherton., and Mounted on page 56 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published 3 March 1786 by James Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Children, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner., and Companion print: A visit to the grandfather.
Publisher:
Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Children, Eyeglasses, Families, Grandparents, and Nests