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1. Dr. Goldsmith [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1770]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 107. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the author Oliver Goldsmith; bust, in profile to the left; wearing queue wig and jacket; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Doctor Goldsmith
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.156., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : drypoint with etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.4 x 13 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dr. Goldsmith [graphic]
2. High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 23d Feby. 1774.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 71. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: the coachman, half asleep; the huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo; and a rather drowsy black boy. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock. There are two drawings pinned to the wall
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of dialogue etched below title: Coachman: You go." Cook: Hang me if I go." Kingston: Mollsey, Pollsey go.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals -- Domestic service: Coachman -- Kingston -- Black foot-boy -- Reference to William Ann Holles, earl of Essex, 1732-1799., Mounted on page 71 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.6 x 29.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Townley, James, 1714-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Coach drivers, Cooks, Servants, Longcase clocks, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex / [graphic]
3. Hyde Park, 1780 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 February 1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 21. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 119. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The left sheet of a three-plate composition, British Museum Satires Nos. 5925-7. Riders, probably in Hyde Park, looking with astonishment at an elderly lady (right) walking from left to right followed by a little black boy carrying her umbrella. She wears an enormous calash hood, see BMSat 5434, &c, and holds in her left hand a shepherdess's crook. Three men (left) ride side by side, from left to right, the nearest pulls on his reins, leaning back, the next looks at the lady through his spy-glass, the third, staring open-mouthed, lashes his horse. The horse of a stout man riding from right to left, immediately behind the lady, is rearing. In the foreground an old woman sits by the roadside with a sheaf of ballads or newspapers. Behind (left) are trees."--British Museum online catalogue, "A central three plate composition. Riders in Hyde Park. A fat coachman (right) rides (left to right) a coach-horse in blinkers, his mistress is seated behind him, in back-view, wearing an enormous calash hood, see British Museum Satires No. 5434, &c, and holding a fan. The horse has planted its forefeet on the ground, its rider is applying spurs and a coach-whip. On the left a lady and a slim and elegant young man are galloping from right to left; he turns towards her, she looks straight ahead. Behind them rides a groom. In the background (right) is a group of trees, in the foreground grass and (left) three dogs."--British Museum online catalogue, and "The right sheet of a three-plate composition, British Museum Satires Nos. 5925-7. Riders, probably in Hyde Park, with a pedestrian who is being worried by four dogs, apparently on account of his dress. He stands (left) on tiptoe, in profile to the right, holding up his arms, a stick in his right hand. His coat is spotted like a leopard and it and his waistcoat are edged with fur. He is probably a Frenchman. Two dogs worry at his coat, a larger one standing on its hind-legs, puts one paw on his chest, a fourth is biting his long pigtail queue. Three riders, riding from right to left, look with interest at the man and dogs. The foremost is a military officer in uniform, with holsters and rolled cloak on his saddle. A fourth man rides stiffly from left to right, looking straight in front of him."--British Museum catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text within image on second sheet., Sheets trimmed within plate mark on two edges., A single design on three plates., Mounted on page 119 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with rocker, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 41.9 x 53.3 cm., and Imperfect; only the third, rightmost sheet of the three-plate composition is present.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Hyde Park (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Parks, Horses, and Horseback riding
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hyde Park, 1780 [graphic]
4. 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]
5. Mutual accusation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 3d January 1774.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- 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 on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 30.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by Bretherton
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Quacks, Anger, and Marriage
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mutual accusation [graphic]
6. Newmarket a shot at a pigeon / [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Whips, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Newmarket a shot at a pigeon / [graphic]
7. 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]
8. The Fish-Street macaroni [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 March 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 111. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on a prosperous City of London merchant: a portly man, grinning happily, beside the entrance to a suburban pleasure garden called "The New Paradise" to which "No Gentlemen or Ladies to be admitted with Nails in their Shoes. Recreation & Refreshment at 6d. pr. Head"; he wears an embroidered waistcoat and carries a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Tea gardens: 'The New Paradise,' Fish-Street., Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.5 x 17.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs March 29, 1772, by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street No. 134
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Merchants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Fish-Street macaroni [graphic]
9. The St. James's macaroni [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 March 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 109. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A standing man facing left with wig and sword."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Saint James's macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.7 x 17.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs March 29, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The St. James's macaroni [graphic]