Masquerade scene, Kensington Gardens [graphic]

Description

Title: Masquerade scene, Kensington Gardens [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs [...]
Description: Title from caption below image.
Sam Sharp-Eye is the pseudonym of an undetermined artist; questionable attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with imprint mostly burnished out, of a plate originally published 2 July 1772 by J. Bretherton. See no. 5083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Text within etched banner in top part of design: Jack on a cruise. A missey in [the] offing.
Temporary local subject terms: Cavendish, Elizabeth, d. 1779 -- Horace Walpole refers to subject of print, YW. 9. 171, n. 7, 8; 31. 53, n. 18 -- Masquerades -- Costume, 1772.
Watermark, mostly trimmed: Strasburg bend.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.8 x 20 cm, on sheet 31 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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