A dancing bear [graphic]

Description

Title: A dancing bear [graphic]
Creator: Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1785?]
Publication Place: Dublin
Publisher: Published by Wm. Allen, No. 32 Dame Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Printmaker and publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Spectators of performance by French? family with dancing bear -- Animals: Performing bears -- Costume, ca. 1780 -- French costume: Street performers.
Note in an unidentified later hand below image: Engraved by Rowlandson.
Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Provenance: Maggs; August 1964; Minto Wilson Collection.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38 x 47 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) Ireland 1785
Etchings Ireland Dublin 1785
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Monkeys
Sailors
British
Signs (Notices)
Spectators
Subjects: Dogs
Monkeys
Sailors > British
Signs (Notices)
Spectators
Ireland > 1785
Ireland > Dublin > 1785

Access: Public
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