Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
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. B...
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards.
"Dr. Eveleigh stands in profile to the right, holding to his person his voluminous gown. He wears a clerical wig, mortar-board, and cassock. He is tall and dignified with sharply cut, alert, sensitive features."--British Museum online catalogue
"Dr. Barnes, wearing cap and gown, a clerical wig, and bands, stands in profile to the right. He is tall, with a fierce Punch-like profile. A second imprint is etched in reversed characters in the shadow at his feet: 'Whitt . . . N° 31 Shoe La[ne], Lo...
A group of four academics sit at a table playing cards; a fifth stands to the right in front of an open door. A thin serving woman (left) brings in a bottle of wine and a glass of wine on a tray. A portrait of a smiling man hangs on the back wall, on ...
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics, playing a rubber at whist
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 April, 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, and Teachers
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of mus...
"View in an oval frame, showing different parts of the school and hospital on Newgate Street, London; an arcade at the back lines one side of the courtyard, pupils and school masters in yard; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a se...
Alternative Title:
View of the library founded in 1429 by Richard Whittington
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
"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...
Alternative Title:
Pot fair Cambridge ; The college gate
Description:
Titles etched below images.
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:
[20 January 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 59. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two do...
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics
Description:
Title from text below image
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 20th Jany. 1773 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"View in an oval frame, showing the school building, part of Christ's Hospital on Newgate Street, London; a school master with a group of boys in coats in foreground, a church steeple in the background; below a paragraph on the history of the building...
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1 - 1793 by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
