Breakfast at Breteuil [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Breakfast at Breteuil [graphic]
- Creator
- Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
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Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1 November 1802]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
- Abstract
-
"Breakfast at Breteuil; study for a satirical print showing an interior scene with, from left to right, a postilion in enormous boots facing a bald-headed man, a rotund man being shaved by a thin man, a woman with a coffee-pot and plate with bread in front of a table, with a man eating and drinking opposite her, to the right in the middle ground a figure with his ear caught in tongs as the man curling his hair is distracted by a dog, a figure in the background holding up a shirt to cover his nudity, and in the foreground on the far r, a man pulling on a boot, with a print of the Fall of the Bastille above the fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x, p. 91-92.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 45.2 x 64 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawer 802.11.01.03
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Aquatints England London 1802
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching and aquatint ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1802
England > London > 1802
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
- Catalog Record
- 9840242
- Object ID (OID)
- 15813595
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