Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.12.07.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 239 x 295 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of image from top edge.
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image., The prints for Every body's album & caricature magazine were made by C.J. Grant. See British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from dealer's description., Text following date: To be continued once on every fortnight., Text below series title: An original pictorial comical satirical political sentimental caustical whimsical philosophical topographical theatrical theological poetical pastoral rumbostical moral periodical., "Excuse us pray if we do our best, to make as much waste paper as the rest!"--Above image., "Price 6d plain and 1s colour'd."--Above image, right edge., and Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of text above image: 17.4 x 26.1 cm.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
Title etched below image., Possibly by Rowlandson., 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 leaf 47 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 28, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Families, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), Dogs, and Windows
"A sailor's family, on board ship; the sailor seated at centre, his arm around his wife or sweetheart, both looking tenderly at the baby held between them; a young woman, very décolletée, standing behind at left, attending to a young child eating at a table; a dog at the sailor's feet ar left, looking up at the family; above, rowing boat on a beam, and other maritime articles including barrel, gun and cutlass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Families, Dogs, Barrels, Firearms, and Daggers & swords
"A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., 1 print : stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.7 x 20 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
A view of the west front of the parish church, St. Bartholomew of Crewkerne, with the clergyman and parishioners in the churchyard at an interment. With a view of gravestones and thatched cottages in the distance on the left. A large tree dominates the upper portion of the design
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Churches, Clergy, Families, Funeral rites & ceremonies, and Villages
Volume 2, page 77. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Me and my wife and daughter
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: O terque quaterque beati., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,"., In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments., Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17., Description based on imperfect impression., Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people
A fashionable family looks at a roll of wallpaper that the shop clerk is displaying to them. The shop owner jestures to the elaborately decorated pattern on the roll. Another clerk behind the counter looks on as he rolls another bolt
