Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 10 June 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an unlucky gambler: a man standing facing to left looking dejected with his hands in his breeches pockets and a riding whip under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before publication line added and before additional drypoint shading. For a later state with the publication line "Publish'd 10th June 1774", see no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album.
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
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
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 95. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Variant (early?) state lacking publication line. For a state with "Publish'd 20th Jany. 1774" scratched in lower left corner of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.819., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching and drypoint in sepia ink on laid paper ; sheet 24.8 x 17.1 cm.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 95. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st April 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 87. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)