"A thin, sharp-featured man walks in the teeth of the wind, holding on his hat, and with his left hand in his breeches pocket. His hat-brim, hair, cravat, coat, the tail of his shirt, the strings of his breeches and shoes, all fly backwards. He walks ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The...
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawer 802.11.01.05.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
Volume 2, page 63. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
