Snip anglois [graphic]

Description

Title: Snip anglois [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 December 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Publisher inferred to be J. Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement.
Companion print to: Snip francois.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' portfolios.
1 print on wove paper : etching with drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.2 x 15 cm, on sheet 29 x 21 cm.
Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures erased from sheet, and year of publication in imprint altered in ms. from "1773" to "1795."
Probably a later impression from a worn plate.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.1 x 16 cm, on sheet 24 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1773
England > London > 1773

Access: Public
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