Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a hill-side looking away to left, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, holding a crook in the crook of her left arm with two shaggy dogs at her heels and a view of a church spire smong trees and a castle at the foot of a hill behind to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 5 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Title from item., Place of publication derived from printer's place of residence., Date derived from text below title: Der Albrecht Dürer-Verein Seinen Mitgliedern im Jahre 1839 ; Das Original-Gemalde besitzt Herr Cassier Merlein., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Uroscopy., and Blind stamp.
Publisher:
Druck v. Carl Mayer
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Rural, Urine, Analysis, Children, Diseases, Shepherds, Country life, Mothers, Sick persons, and Ducks
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a hill-side directed to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a crook in her right hand, her left at her apron which is looped in her waist-band, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, with three goats and a church on a hill in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 5 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Title from caption below image., Text in lower left corner of plate: Size of the picture, 4 f. 9 1/2 i. by 6 f. 4 3/4 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXIV from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 55 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st, 1775, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Caption title., A slip song., First line of the first of seven stanzas: How blithe was I each morn, to see., Date based on other items published by Garratt's., In this edition the woodcut shows a pastoral scene with a couple standing on the left beneath a tree and two dogs on the right., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Garratt's Printing-Office in Lynn, Norfolk
Verse begins: "Attend you nymphs and virgins,"., In three columns; the title and illustration above the first column; the imprint at foot of the third column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are not separated by rules., Dating based on the imprint; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 14. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Songs, English, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, and Sheep
Verse -- "Once I read a noble volume,"., In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules; there is no imprint., Divided into four parts; each part headed with a line reading "PART [roman numeral].", Column 2, line 1: "Prince and princess both admire"; column 4, last line: "Since he’s dead let us two die."; last line of text: "He is ace,borrinp royal sir,n." (apparently the last line dropped out and the types were replaced haphazardly)., Some letters of the title appear above the space between the woodcuts; in this printing, all or part of "Y[space]LO" are above the space. The right edge of the left woodcut aligns with the p in "princess" (column 2, line 1)., There are several printings from this setting of the text, with variations in several points: text of column 2/line 1, column 4/last line, and the last line of text; the presence or absence of part numbers; the alignment of the woodcuts with the title and text; and the presence or absence of an imprint., The other printings are ESTC N48661, T44329, N511125, N511126, and T44330., Dated from the address in the imprint found on one printing (ESTC T44330); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 25. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
"Rural scene with two couples dancing on the left while a man pipes and plays a drum under a tree on the right, and another couple watch at a table in front of him, smoking and drinking; village in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shepherds holy day
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The month of May is now begun, and the sweet flowers are all in bloom; the nymphs and swains like lambs shall play, to welcome the shepherds holyday.
Publisher:
Published Oct. 24th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dancers, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Holidays, Shepherds, and Pipes (Smoking)
Verse - "You that do know what to true love belong.". -, There is no full stop at the end of the title., Title and three woodcuts are above the first two columns; the first woodcut depicts a shepherd with his crook, the second a hanged man, and the third a shepherdess also with crook; the columns of text are separated by columns of type ornaments; and there are two layers of clouds in the first woodcut., The woodcuts are also found in editions with Bow Church Yard and Aldermary Church Yard imprints; the date is based on that; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In this printing, the left edge of the first woodcut aligns with the "i" in "wandering" in the title. In another printing (ESTC N511170), it aligns with the space between "n" and "g"., Mounted on leaf 61. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Hangings (Executions), Gallows, and Dead persons
Drawing of a shepherd, full length, facing left and looking slightly upward; bald, with a long beard; barefoot, wearing a robe; holding a staff in his right hand, his left hand partially outstretched
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 105 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.