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1.
[French peasant] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1780s]
Call Number:
780.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title assigned and date conjectured by cataloger., Publisher's formation added in contemporary hand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possible photomechanical reprint.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress and Peasants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [French peasant] [graphic]

2.
Peasants [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1820?]
Call Number:
820.00.00.54
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene with a family group of peasants standing with a gentleman in coat and top hat. In the distance others are working in the fields, one woman carrying a sheaf of wheat to the left
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '10' in the upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Peasants. Peasants-engaged in harvest-who, for that purpose, mostly come from the interior, "To reap and sheave, and bind ..., and Second sheet attached to print 12 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants and Harvesting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Peasants [graphic].

3.
[Changing horses at Clermont] [art original]

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist
Published / Created:
[1790]
Call Number:
Drawer Drawings B995 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postillion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air
Alternative Title:
Changing horses on the road to Paris
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower left., and One of five views by the artist F.G. Byron that record his visit to France in 1790; they were exhibited at the Society of Artists the following year. This drawing was exhibited under the title "Changing horses on the road to Paris" (Society of Artists, 1791, no. 39).
Subject (Geographic):
Clermont (France) and France.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Taverns (Inns), Postillions, French, Peasants, Country life, Ethnic stereotypes, and Drums (Musical instruments)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Changing horses at Clermont] [art original]

4.
Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 November 1786]
Call Number:
786.11.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old French woman wearing sabots walks to the right carrying a large sack strapped to her back
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Partial watermark: centered on right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 10th, 1786, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Older people and Peasants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paille d'avoine, paille d'avoine [graphic]

5.
Fille de Montmelian [graphic]

Creator:
Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 July 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 39. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman stands in front of a cliff, facing right, wearing a dress and a hat; a stringed instrument, which she grasps with both hands, is slung around her shoulders with a ribbon or strap; the roof of a cottage, some trees, and the side of a mountain are seen behind her on the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 39 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 37.3 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Stringed instruments, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fille de Montmelian [graphic]

6.
Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]

Creator:
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 July 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 21. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman is seen from behind, walking away from the viewer with her head turned to the left. A boy holds her right hand and a smaller girl holds her left hand. An instrument hangs from a strap around her shoulders. On the rise above her to the right is a house, and a town is visible in the distance on the left
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 21 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 28.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]

7.
Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]

Creator:
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 July 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 21. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman is seen from behind, walking away from the viewer with her head turned to the left. A boy holds her right hand and a smaller girl holds her left hand. An instrument hangs from a strap around her shoulders. On the rise above her to the right is a house, and a town is visible in the distance on the left
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 25 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]

8.
Fille de Montmelian [graphic]

Creator:
Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 July 1784]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 39. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman stands in front of a cliff, facing right, wearing a dress and a hat; a stringed instrument, which she grasps with both hands, is slung around her shoulders with a ribbon or strap; the roof of a cottage, some trees, and the side of a mountain are seen behind her on the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 25 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Stringed instruments, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fille de Montmelian [graphic]

9.
John Bulls alternative [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1781?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull stands on a stone on tiptoe under a tree, a rope round his neck attached to a branch of the tree. He holds the rope with both hands, to prevent strangulation. On the right stands a Frenchman (France) holding out a leek to John Bull, between them is a stream or river. John Bull is a moderately stout man with a thick neck, wearing an ill-made bob-wig, not the characteristic John Bull of later satires, who had already appeared, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5611, 5612. The Frenchman is very thin, wearing a night-cap, a long pigtail queue, a ruffled shirt, and sabots stuffed with grass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: France as a French peasant -- Emblems: Leek for France -- ?Reference to defeat at Yorktown., and Second of two plates on leaf 32.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Hangings (Executions), Nooses, Peasants, Onions, Streams, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > John Bulls alternative [graphic].

10.
[A French country girl] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 95. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman in rustic dress, walking to left, twisting slightly from the viewer but with her head in profile, a large basket in her right hand, swinging her left arm ahead of her as she moves, wearing a mob-cap, with her apron looped up into her waist-band; after Bunbury; one of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants and Baskets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A French country girl] [graphic]