Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter, Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther., Mounted on page 5 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 30.0 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 36.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 43 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 17.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 97. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing in a field, in profile to right, head turned towards the viewer, holding a distaff under her left arm, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, apron, fihcu and a soft hat, with two goats and a child beside her to right who throws up its arms in delight; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 97 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.3 x 17.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother's skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk
Alternative Title:
Relieving the distressed travellers
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by Robert Dighton, now at the Yale Center for British Art (Accession Number: B1986.29.78). The drawing is part of a set of "Twelve Illustrations to Contemporary Life and Diversions.", Date of publication based on watermark., and Watermark: [...] ons 1812.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Travel, Children, Wagons, Recruiting & enlistment, and Soldiers
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1614); as St Cecilia, whole-length, seated to left on a stool playing the organ within an oval; two children singing behind; to left, cloud with rays of light."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Saint Caecilia, St. Cecilia, and Mrs. Sheridan
Description:
Title from text below image., State from Goodwin and Hamilton., First state, before title altered; for a later state with the title "Mrs. Sheridan", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1830,0714.52., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 36 (leaf numbered '94' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published July 20th, 1779, for Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 36. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The tender mother., and Mounted on page 36 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
"A woman sitting in a chair at left reading from a book to a girl with a dog and boy standing and another girl sitting at right, all with sullen expressions; after Bunbury, second state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3002., Four lines of verse below title: By angels caught, all-hallow'd as they flow, are tears we shed for sorrows not our own; and bosoms heaving for anothers woe, waft their own incense to the heavenly throne. EW [monogram]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: ?Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687., and Mounted on page 101 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29, 1782, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"A woman sitting in a chair at left reading from a book to a girl with a dog and boy standing and another girl sitting at right, all with sullen expressions; after Bunbury, second state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3002., Four lines of verse below title: By angels caught, all-hallow'd as they flow, are tears we shed for sorrows not our own; and bosoms heaving for anothers woe, waft their own incense to the heavenly throne. EW [monogram]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: ?Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687., Mounted on page 101 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 28.6 x 19.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29, 1782, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Volume 2, page 34. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady nurses a sleeping baby while another older girl approaches from the left; an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 34 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street