"Two scenes printed on one sheet, the subjects relate to Bunbury's days as a student at Cambridge. "Pot Fair Cambridge": pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at right is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table. "The College Gate": Three men ride off in different directions after coming through a gate with square brick pillars surmounted by stone vases. Behind the left rider walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap. Through the gateway we are shown a short fat man in a clerical wig standing on a mounting block as a groom approaches with his horse."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Alternative Title:
Pot fair Cambridge ; The college gate
Description:
Titles etched below images., Later state, with new border lines added around each image., Two images on one plate, each with its own title and statement of responsibility., Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates of 1977. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles., An original issue date of ca. 1790 is suggested Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1861., Top image is a reduced copy of no. 4729 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4., and Bottom image is a reduced copy of no. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge, and King's College (University of Cambridge). Chapel,
Subject (Topic):
Pottery, Dogs, Students, Teachers, Gates, Horses, and Clergy
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 25 June 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 121. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., "A proof before all letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.809., For a later state with lettering, published 25 June 1777, see no. 4729 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., and Mounted on page 121 of: Bunbury album.
