Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 63. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Obadiah (left) mounted on the coach-horse at full gallop attempts to pull up his horse, leaning back in the saddle, his cap in his right hand. On the ground is Dr. Slop's pony. Behind the pony on the right. Dr. Slop lies on his back; a spotted dog prances over him. The doctor lies under a sign-post terminating in a hand pointing "To Shandy Hall". Behind the coach-horse, which is wearing blinkers, is the angle of a high garden wall, in the distance (right) is a church spire among trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Overthrow of Doctor Slop
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: "When Obadiah & his coach horse turn'd the corner rapid, furious, pop, full upon him ..." Vide vol. 1st, Tristram Shandy., One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Physicians -- Coach-horse -- Male costume: Riding hats., and Mounted on page 63 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from street address., One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day., Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.1 x 31.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland: a portly man with coat and sword in profile asleep on his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sleepy macaroni stealing a nap
Description:
Title from text below image., Sam Sharp-Eye is the pseudonym of an unknown artist, possibly H.W. Bunbury. See no. 5083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies, 1772 -- Male costume, 1772., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 10.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 1st, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, in New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Daggers & swords, Obesity, and Sleeping
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd May 29th, 1773.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An illustration to Scarron's 'Roman Comique' (1651), Book II, ch. xx. The scene is the room of an inn. Ragotin, almost bald, sits in an upright chair wearing a long sword and jack boots; his legs do not reach the ground. The ram (left), on its hind-legs, is about to butt him. The encounter is watched by a man who leans on the back of his chair, by another seated behind the ram, and by a third standing between Ragotin and a group of two ladies and a man on the right, one being Inezilla, who had just been reading her novel. Behind this group are the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; letter "n" in "interrupted" is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Scene from Roman comique (1651), Book II, by Paul Scarron, 1610-1660 -- Clowns: Ragotin., Mounted on page 75 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 33.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a barber in profile outside his shop holding out his instruments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state of the plate, before drypoint shading added to the figure's face and hair. For a later state with this additional shading, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.94., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side., Temporary local subject terms: Surgeons -- Signboards -- Medical instruments: Lancet -- Barbers implements: Razor and shaving dish -- Bob wigs -- Bob-majors wigs -- Scratches wigs -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Black pudding -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 95. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Variant (early?) state lacking publication line. For a state with "Publish'd 20th Jany. 1774" scratched in lower left corner of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.819., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 24.8 x 17.1 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 95. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st April 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 87. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1780]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 37. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, [two] dogs in the foreground ...; oval design after Bunbury, proof before letters or wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., For lettered state with additions to the design, published 1 March 1780 by J. Bretherton, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.821., Sheet trimmed to / within plate mark., and Mounted on page 37 of: Bunbury album.