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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Probably an earlier state of a print in the British Museum with the imprint "Publish'd 11th March 1778." Cf. no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to foreign parts [graphic]