Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
3d January 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses. From the corner of a house on the left hangs a sign, "Dr Walker's veritable antiscorbutic Pills. Beware of Impostors". From the house on the right. a sign projects, "True antiscorbutic Pills". The doctors wear large wigs and swords, and carry three-cornered hats. One (left) holds in his hand a medicine-bottle; behind them are two dogs fighting. Their wives (right) are fighting violently; one (left) has seized the other by the hair and is kicking her. Behind them (right) two cats with arched backs are spitting at each other. In the upper part of the print (center) is a shield with two ducks, and beneath is the motto: "Quack Quack Quack".
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When once you've told & cant recall a lye, boldly percist [sic] in't or your fame will die. Learn this ye wives, with unrelenting claws, or right or wrong, assert your husbands cause., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctors -- Medicine: Dr. Walker's antiscorbutic pills., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & Married life., Mounted to 32 x 43 cm., Watermark: L.V.G., and Some ink wash added as additional shading to figures' clothing.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bretherton
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st March 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.03.01.02.2+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to British Museum Satires No. 4719."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication statement is lightly etched and barely visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Campanion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a pigeon., and Watermark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st March 1777.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 73. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a gullible young gambler; a street scene with a group of local Newmarket men and a small boy pointing at an open-mouthed young gentleman his right hand in his pocket holding a riding whip accompanied by an Italian greyhound; a street dog defecates in front of the young man; the wall behind the men has been chalked with the name of the famous racehorse Mambrino; in the distance three men converse outside a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint statement lightly etched and barely visible., Companion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a hawk., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket -- Slang: Pigeon., Mounted on page 73 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; plate mark 24.9 x 27.0 cm, on sheet 32.4 x 34.1 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st March 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.03.01.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 73. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a gullible young gambler; a street scene with a group of local Newmarket men and a small boy pointing at an open-mouthed young gentleman his right hand in his pocket holding a riding whip accompanied by an Italian greyhound; a street dog defecates in front of the young man; the wall behind the men has been chalked with the name of the famous racehorse Mambrino; in the distance three men converse outside a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint statement lightly etched and barely visible., Companion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a hawk., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket -- Slang: Pigeon., 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; sheet 24.5 x 26.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, trimmed.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Mounted on page 11 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; on sheet 39.0 x 49.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.06.25.01.2++ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1804., and Later printing.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.12.20.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher inferred to be J. Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip francois., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' portfolios., 1 print on laid paper : etching with drypoint ; sheet 21.9 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 795.12.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher inferred to be J. Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip francois., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' portfolios., 1 print on wove paper : etching with drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.2 x 15 cm, on sheet 29 x 21 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures erased from sheet, and year of publication in imprint altered in ms. from "1773" to "1795.", and Probably a later impression from a worn plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.9 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134