Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. 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. Beneath the title is etched, "dedicated to the illustrious Inheritress of her fame in Professors of Arts & Sciences, the University of Cambridge O Matre pulchra Filia pulchrior!" 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:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 137 of: Bunbury album.
"A wealthy middle class family gathered in a room, the father standing in the centre, leaning on the back of a chair which his youngest child stands upon, embracing him, a son standing beside pointing to an open book and the mother sitting at left, gazing to right while another daughter beside plays with a kitten, a bird in a cage on table beside; at right an older son looks out anxiously at the ships on river beyond, his coat over his arm.."--British Museum online catalogue and The paintings on the back wall of the room and the statue above the doorway amplify the moral subject of the print
Description:
Title from text in lower margin, centered., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved below image, on either side of title: To Their Most Excellent Majesties King George III, & Queen Charlotte, this print is most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful and loyal subject, Jno. Boydell.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 29, 1799, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Fonthill Abbey, south end of St. Michael's Gallery
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Britton, J. Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. London : Printed for the author, 1823., Numbered "Pl. IX" in upper right margin., "H."--Lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Publisher:
Printed for the author
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1760-1844 and Fonthill Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Galleries (Display spaces), and Windows
Title etched below image., Plate from: Britton, J. Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. London : Printed for the author, 1823., Numbered "Pl. X" in upper right margin., "Hav."--Lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep at the bedside (left) while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, and holding a crêpe-bound mute's wand, enters from the right as if smelling out death. The doctor wears old-fashioned dress, with powdered wig, and has a huge gold-headed cane. Beside him are the words: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, Then if they Die I Lets em"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "292" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Doctor., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 67 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep at the bedside (left) while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, and holding a crêpe-bound mute's wand, enters from the right as if smelling out death. The doctor wears old-fashioned dress, with powdered wig, and has a huge gold-headed cane. Beside him are the words: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, Then if they Die I Lets em"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "292" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Doctor., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 39.5 cm., and Watermark: 1819.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, lies stretched on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which looks Death, a skeleton holding up an hour-glass and a javelin which he points menacingly at his victim. A fat doctor (left) sits asleep at the bedside (left) while an undertaker's man, with a coffin on his back, and holding a crêpe-bound mute's wand, enters from the right as if smelling out death. The doctor wears old-fashioned dress, with powdered wig, and has a huge gold-headed cane. Beside him are the words: "I purge I bleed I sweat em, Then if they Die I Lets em"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
One too many
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "292" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Doctor., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Physicians, Undertakers, Coffins, Hourglasses, Interiors, Sick persons, Deathbeds, and Windows
Drawing showing the interior of the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. A canopy bed is centered against the back wall, flanked on either side by two chairs and two hanging paintings. At right is the chimney-piece of Portland stone and gilt designed by Horace Walpole from the tomb of W. Dudley, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey; a firescreen and two red china bottles are seen sitting in front of the fireplace, while the large picture of Henry 8th and his children is seen hanging above. On the wall at left are two bow windows, the arched tops of which are painted with coats of arms. Between the windows hangs a large mirror, above which hangs a painting and below which sits a table with three vases on it. A clock hangs above another chair on the extreme right. The walls are covered in crimson Norwich damask; two crimson rugs cover the floor, one beneath the bed and the other in the center of the room. The celing is decorated with a geometric pattern in gold
Alternative Title:
Great North Bedchamber
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card., Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen., Mounted on page 204 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Chimneypieces, Chairs, Clocks, and Windows
"Interior view of the Guildhall, looking towards large arched stained-glass window at far end; a procession of men pass through grand entrance on the right, groups of figures stand to watch; a flat ceiling in panels above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 40., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 103.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Guildhall (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Parades & processions, Windows, Stained glass, and Sculpture