Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].

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Title: Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].
Alternative Title: Captain Bounce and Colonel Fearful
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [9 September 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. as the act directs, Sepr. 9, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: In a well furnished room, a stout man in a queue wig starts up from his chair to fire from a blunderbuss at the portrait of a French Field Marshall on the left. His companion seeks cover under the table, his legs tangled in the chair he has overthrown. In the foreground lie a sheathed sword and a map. A drum stands next to the shooter
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject headings: Furniture: Chippendale-style chair -- Military: Drums -- Paintings amplifying subject: A man on a rearing horse -- Weapons -- Guns: Blunderbusses -- Glass: Wine bottle and glass.
First of two plates on leaf 41.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 41. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper) I V.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Chairs
Drums (Musical instruments)
Daggers & swords
Firearms
Wine
Bottles
Drinking vessels
Subjects: Interiors
Chairs
Drums (Musical instruments)
Daggers & swords
Firearms
Wine
Bottles
Drinking vessels
England > 1773
England > London > 1773
I V.

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