Misery [graphic]

Description

Title: Misery [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [2 February 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Feby. 2d 1788, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, Portland Place
Abstract: "A mother selling her daughters to two men at the door of their cottage, pushing one distraught girl out of the door and extending her hand for the payment, at left the father turns away from the transaction with shame, as the sister kneels on the floor with hands clasped, desperately pleading with him to reconsider, at the right of the basic room a young man sits solemnly, a little girl leaning against his leg and a baby in a crib in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Two lines of verse below image, one on either side of title: To barter virtue, see the parent led, and with a child's dishonour, purchase bread.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Cottages -- Baby in cradle -- Pottery jugs.
Provenance: Note on catalog card: Removed from Bunbury Works, p. 42.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 49.5 x 63.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Aquatints England London 1788
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and aquatint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Cradles
Disgrace
Distress
Dwellings
Dogs
Domestic life
Hunters
Interiors
Pitchers
Subjects: Cradles
Disgrace
Distress
Dwellings
Dogs
Domestic life > England > 1788
Hunters
Interiors
Pitchers
England > London > 1788

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