Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st April 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 87. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
