Courier Francois [graphic]

Description

Title: Courier Francois [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accordg. to act Jany. 1st, 1772, by T. Scratchley
Abstract: A French courier rides a galloping post-horse to the left while raising his whip; a building with the sign "Poste Royale" is visible in the background
Description: Title etched below image.
T. Scratchley is the pseudonym of Matthias Darly.
Early state. For reissue with different imprint, see no. 5056 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner.
Second of two plates on leaf 31.
1 print : etching with rocker and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 17.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.9 x 26 cm, on sheet 19 x 27 cm
Language: French
English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 31. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with rocker and drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Messengers
Horseback riding
Whips
Subjects: Messengers
Horseback riding
Whips
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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