A view of the interior of busy French barracks shows a more domestic atmosphere than military although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
Description:
Title from engraving based on this drawing, published by S.W. Fores 12 August 1791. and For further information, consult library staff.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image on second plate., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Dedication below image on third plate: This plate is dedicated to His Royal Highness by his most obedient humble servant, James Bretherton., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Tipped in at page 5 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. 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. Beneath the title is etched, "dedicated to the illustrious Inheritress of her fame in Professors of Arts & Sciences, the University of Cambridge O Matre pulchra Filia pulchrior!" 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:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 137 of: Bunbury album.
Title from item., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Earlier state, with artist's name and title intact, and without background lines and altered border, of No. 4773 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Mythology: allusion to Boadicea (Boudicca) -- Containers: antique chamber pots -- Books., and Mounted to 49 x 37 cm.
Title from text in image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design enclosed by a horseshoe-shaped border., Two columns of verse below image: Calm, tho not mean, couragious without rage ... Signed: W. Hamilton., and Mounted to 23 x 20 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., Mounted on page 93 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.3 x 31.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals