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1. A militia meeting [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 61. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire showing three men all with caricatured faces stand in front of two men, one of whom is obese and points to them, sit at a table. Behind them pinned to the wall are a map and portrait. Two dogs, one large and black and the other small and white, raise their paws at each other
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state, before additional drypoint shading added. For a later state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 773.01.02.02.2+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Militia., and Mounted on page 61 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, Dogs, and Maps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A militia meeting [graphic]
2. Le fameux Blaise Lacoste, Limosin. F.R.S. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 49. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A full-length view of a young, French macaroni in profile facing left, stands beside a donkey whose reins he holds in his right hand. On the left, a dog jumps at the pair
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Mounted on page 49 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 22.4 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 28.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le fameux Blaise Lacoste, Limosin. F.R.S. [graphic]
3. Snip francois [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Tailors, Muffs, and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Snip francois [graphic]
4. The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 59. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Christmas academics
- Description:
- Title from text below image, Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Games: Whist -- Cambridge: Combination Room -- Archbishop Singe -- Christmas., and Mounted on page 59 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs 20th Jany. 1773 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Teachers, Card games, Wine, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]
5. The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 February 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 91. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her right hand while in her left she holds a candle over the cradle where the swaddled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious fury, her mouth agape. On the left Dr. Slop raises his left fist at her while in his right he holds a cataplasm in a ladle, ready to fling at her. His hat lies at his feet, and his wig is ablaze. Obadiah stands behind him carrying in his hands a chamber pot and a bowl, a medicine bottle tucked under his arm. The two men stand before a screen. The walls of the room are hung with portraits and a mirror; a grandfather's clock showing the time as 6:15 stands against the wall behind the cradle and Susannah. Two medicine bottles sit on a table partially hidden behind the screen. In the foreground lies an over-turned chair
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of quoted text below image, four on either side of title: "Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slop's wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous withal was as soon burnt as kindled ..." Vide Tris. Shandy vol. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Cataplasm -- 'Dr. Slop' -- Dishes: Bowls -- Lighting: Long handle candlesticks -- Domestic service: Maid -- Furniture: Hall clock -- Folding screen., and Mounted on page 91 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, Servants, and Women domestics
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The battle of the cataplasm [graphic]
6. The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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
- Subject (Name):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustrations, Horseback riding, Accidents, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Garden walls
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The overthrow of Dr. Slop [graphic]
7. The salutation tavern [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- J. Bretherton
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, Wigs, Bowing, Etiquette, and Plazas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The salutation tavern [graphic]
8. The slumbers of Ragotin interrupted [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Scarron, Paul, 1610-1660.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Sleeping, Sheep, and Animal attacks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The slumbers of Ragotin interrupted [graphic]
9. [James Moss, dog seller] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 15 May 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 113. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering and before drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- J. Bretherton
- Subject (Name):
- Westminster Abbey,
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs and Fences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [James Moss, dog seller] [graphic].