Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion wearing huge boots is seen from behind, walking away holding his whip
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Postillions., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 12.1 x 8.1 cm, on sheet 12.4 x 8.4 cm.
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion wearing huge boots is seen from behind, walking away holding his whip
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Postillions., Mounted on page 10a in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 12.4 x 8.2 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink in lower left corner: HW. ipse sc.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 135. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of a large room showing two sash windows, through one of which (left) is seen part of the south side of the Senate House, through the other, the tower of St. Mary's Church, both drawn with topographical accuracy. Between the two windows is a niche in which is a statue of Athene holding her shield; in her outstretched left hand is held out a laurel wreath towards some men beneath her who have entered from a door on the right. Her owl sits beside her on the stump of a tree. ... Immediately below Athene, and concealing the lower part of her draperies a man stands on a high rostrum covered with a cloth. He wears a furred academic gown and bands, and holds out a rolled document in his right hand. Immediately below the rostrum a man, not in academic dress, is seated at a table writing. He is in profile to the right looking towards four men who have entered from the right through an open door, apparently 'professors of Arts and Sciences', whose names he is recording. The foremost of these is a dancing-master who stands holding a bow in his right hand, a kit or small fiddle in his left. Next is a rough-looking elderly man wearing a round hat and long coat. The other two are middle-aged, one holding his hat and a cane and accompanied by a dog. On the left, and behind the chair of the man writing, are two other 'professors'; a fencing-master, wearing a fencing-jacket, stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right, his left arm raised, holding his foil horizontally. Behind him stands a thin man wearing a hat, one hand in his waistcoat pocket, the other thrust in his waistcoat."--British Museum catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from statements of responsibility on later state: T.O. invt. & delt. ; Js. Bretherton f. 3d Jany. 1778., Proof before letters. For a later state with lettering, see no. 5510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of: Bunbury album.
Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83., Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from right edge., and On leaf 141 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.