"Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip; a progress proof in pure etching before the addition in drypoint of the horse behind to the right."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0309.1663
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Early (proof?) state, before figure's queue added in drypoint and before the addition of background and foreground elements. For a later state with these changes to the plate, see no. 4743 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Coach drivers, and Whips
A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking forward, away from the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Early state, before position of the figure's head altered and before additional shading added to the foreground. For a later state with these changes to the plate, see no. 4745 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Whips, and Coach drivers
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking over his right shoulder towards the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with position of the figure's head altered and with additional shading added to the foreground. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 14.5 x 10.1 cm, on sheet 15.1 x 10.7 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Whips, and Coach drivers
"Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue. and Later state, with the figure's queue added in drypoint and with the addition of background and foreground elements. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0309.1663.
Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83., Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet., Date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Detail of a reversed copy of William Hogarth's Gin lane. A cross-looking S. Gripe pawnbroker (1) stands in the doorway of his shop in the slum of St. Giles, Westminster as he examines a coat and a saw strapped to it as another man (2) in a hat converses with him. Below a man (3) and dog both knaw on a bone. Above the drawing is the letter 'K'. Images are numbered as if to a key which is lacking here
Detail of a reversed copy of William Hogarth's Southwark Fair. From the left portion of the original design showing a theatrical establishment showing the fall of Troy as a figure in a plumed Roman helmet (1) tumbles backwards as two figures (2 and 3) grasp a pole. The lantern center is labeled "The fall of Bajazet'. Above the drawing is the letter 'K'. Images are numbered as if to a key which is lacking here
A man (a pugilist?) carrying his hat in his right hand runs along the street of Covent Garden Pizza, a switch in his left hand with a bundle of switches in under his left arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: [The] roaring blades who nightly rove, [the] fam'd Broughtonian sons ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: John Smith, fl. 1732-1746., Watermark: countermark W., and Manuscript note in later hand above image: Jack Smith better known by the name of Buck Horse -- The celebrated old pugilist -- Scene Covent Garden Piazza.
Publisher:
Publish'd & sold by Thos. Bowen, Printseller at [the] Golden Pallet in Shug Lane, near the Haymarket, St. James's
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on A dictionary of English costume by C. Willett Cunnington et al., London : A. & C. Black [1960], p. 249., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs., and Watermark: J Whatman.