[A dancing bear] [graphic]
Found In:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]
15813496
Description
- Title
- [A dancing bear] [graphic]
- Creator
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Contributor
-
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher. - Published / Created
- [21 July 1801]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description
-
Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue.
Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print on laid paper : etching and drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 32 cm.
Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures mostly erased from sheet.
Watermark: J. Whatman 179[...?].
Publisher's stamp (partially trimmed) in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.[F.]. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix, p. 32.; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 21.4 x 26.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 2
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1801
Drypoints England London 1801
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Trained animals
Chains
Wind instruments
Staffs (Sticks) - Subjects
-
Trained animals
Chains
Wind instruments
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1774
England > London > 1801
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
- 8078721
- Object ID (OID)
- 15813496
Manifest Link
