A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
"A stuffed figure of George IV, heavy, inert, and puppet-like, wearing royal robes and with massive antlers on his forehead, is supported by his three chief Ministers. Under his legs are two prostrate men; his left foot is planted on the face of one w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 26, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Robes, Antlers, Infants, Cradles, Coats of arms, and Doors & doorways
Two women stand before a knife grinder and his cart equipped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. The woman closest to the viewer hands him a pair of scissors while the other looks on. In the background o...
Alternative Title:
Knives, scissors and razors to grind and Couteaux, ciseaux, rasoirs a repasser
Description:
Titles in English and French below image, engraved on either side of series title.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1795, by Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
"Members of the Grenville family surround a table on which a black footman places a basket containing an attractive baby. The child kicks and crows as the man lifts up the wrapping which had covered her. A blue ribbon with a seal or jewel hangs from t...
Alternative Title:
Misfortune of not being born with marks of "the talents"!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 19th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Grenville, Thomas, 1755-1846, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Infants, Baskets, Servants, Religious articles, Robes, Tables, Altars, Chandeliers, and Doors & doorways
"A woman sitting over the cradle of her child, at right a servant woman seen from the back pours from a jug into a saucer resting on a ledge below a portrait of the Lady, standing three-quarter length with folded arms; oval design after Bunbury, illus...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, Women domestics, and Pitchers
"Cottage interior with a man wearing a round-brimmed hat decorated with straw, returning home, holding his son's hand, and dropping some coins into his wife's apron, as she sits to right holding a sleeping baby, while a little girl sits on the floor w...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20, 1790, by J.R. Smith, No. 31 King Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Families, Infants, Coins, Wealth, and Dolls
"Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to Bri...
Alternative Title:
Election in the island of Borneo
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquess of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Garbage collecting, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British
"Solomon enthroned on the left, wearing a crown like a mitre, pointing ahead, where a man stands holding a knife in one hand, a baby in the other, suspending it in the air between two women, who claim it, one of whom kneels near the king, gesturing to...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1791, by Josh. Read, Coventry Court, Coventry Street
"A bare interior with a man sitting smoking at a table with a tankard at his elbow, his wife sitting listlessly with bowed head beside him, a little girl pawing at her skirts, a baby turning on a straw bed, its clothes in disarray, and a little boy gn...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20, 1790, by J.R. Smith, No. 31 King Street, Covent Garden
