Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[9 March 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 61. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 131. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three soldiers capturing a young man, his kneeling lover clutching his arm, the scene watched by two monks standing in the left foreground, one shaking his fist in encouragement, and another soldier at right; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frederick Zemmerman, having escaped from the Abbey of La Trappe ...
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state., State before letters. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, imprint, and dedication etched below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2934., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 61 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., Ink annotations in lower margin provide the title "Fred. Zemmerman having escaped from the Abbey of La Trappe & recover'd his beloved mistress is seiz'd & thrown into a dungeon for life", the statements of responsibility "Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton f.", and the publication line "Publish'd 9th March 1788"., and Price written in pencil in lower right corner of sheet: £1-5s. pair.
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing of a girl, bust-length, cradling a cat in her left arm; the girl has has short, curly hair; the cat is partially wrapped in a blanket
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a watercolor drawing by Horace Walpole, which was copied from Rosalba and hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 85 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Drawing of a young woman reading a book outside under a tree; wearing a long-sleeved dress, hair down and partially covered; head propped up on her left arm; an hourglass on a pedestal beside her, a bird on a tree branch in the background; a church visible in the distance
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 109 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
View of a stone bridge from the riverbank. A covered barge with passenger punts in the river while a single figure punts in a small boat. The treed landscape is populated with many figures: among them is a small group with a dog occupies the on the near shore near a docked boat. A rider on horseback crosses the bridge. In the distance, the ruins of a large stone structure. Horses and sheet graze on the lawn
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Signed by the artist on the skiff: M. Rooker pinx.