A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
- Creator
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Contributor
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
- Published / Created
- publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- 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.
Watermark, mostly trimmed. - Provenance
- Suckling.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 430 x 535 mm, on sheet 432 x 537 mm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1778
Etchings England London 1778
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- France.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Grand tours (Education)
Ethnic stereotypes
Education
Taverns (Inns)
Clergy
Tutoring
Servants
Boots
Whips
Postillions
French - Subjects
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Grand tours (Education) > Caricatures and cartoons
Ethnic stereotypes
Education
Taverns (Inns) > France
Clergy
Tutoring
Servants
Boots
Whips
Postillions > French
England > 1778
England > London > 1778
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10185531
- Object ID (OID)
- 10723177