Eques Cantab [graphic].

Description

Title: Eques Cantab [graphic].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
For an earlier state before drypoint additions to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.3 x 17 cm, on sheet 12 x 18 cm
Edition: [State with additional shading of figures and added ground detail].
Language: Latin

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Bunbury 770.00.00.04.2 Impression 1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Drypoints England London 1770
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): University of Cambridge,
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Whips
Dogs
Subjects: University of Cambridge
Horseback riding
Whips
Dogs
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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