Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 135. 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. Between the two windows is a niche in which is a statue of Athene holding her shield; in her outstretched left hand is held out a laurel wreath towards some men beneath her who have entered from a door on the right. Her owl sits beside her on the stump of a tree. ... Immediately below Athene, and concealing the lower part of her draperies a man stands on a high rostrum covered with a cloth. He wears a furred academic gown and bands, and holds out a rolled document in his right hand. Immediately below the rostrum a man, not in academic dress, is seated at a table writing. He is in profile to the right looking towards four men who have entered from the right through an open door, apparently 'professors of Arts and Sciences', whose names he is recording. The foremost of these is a dancing-master who stands holding a bow in his right hand, a kit or small fiddle in his left. Next is a rough-looking elderly man wearing a round hat and long coat. The other two are middle-aged, one holding his hat and a cane and accompanied by a dog. On the left, and behind the chair of the man writing, are two other 'professors'; a fencing-master, wearing a fencing-jacket, stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right, his left arm raised, holding his foil horizontally. Behind him stands a thin man wearing a hat, one hand in his waistcoat pocket, the other thrust in his waistcoat."--British Museum catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from statements of responsibility on later state: T.O. invt. & delt. ; Js. Bretherton f. 3d Jany. 1778., Proof before letters. For a later state with lettering, see no. 5510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of: Bunbury album.
Two gentlemen wearing academic caps stand looking at tomb effigy in a side chapel of a church. The one man who has a large belly and is gesturing toward the tomb, bears some resemblance to Samuel Johnson. To the right, man confronts a woman who seems prepared to deliver a backhanded slap with her fan and A second drawing on the back of the sheet is of a street scene, with a carriage, horse-drawn omnibus, various couples promenading in the street with one man begging with hat in hand
Description:
Titles devised by cataloger., Unsigned; attributed to Rowlandson., and Date from dealer's description.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Churches, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Academic costumes, Beggars, City & town life, Carriages & coaches, and Pedestrians
"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door ..., another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist from statement of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Proof before letters. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and imprint "London, Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson ..." below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 123 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
W. Dickinson
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Abbeys, Monks, Doors & doorways, and Bells
