Peasant of the Alps [graphic]

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Title: Peasant of the Alps [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: April 2d, 1771.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, (39) Strand
Abstract: "A gaunt standing man striding to left with his hands in a huge muff."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 39 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "7" in upper right corner.
For an earlier state, see no. 4675 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4
First of three plates on leaf 59.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.2 x 10.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.9 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 24.9 x 15.2 cm
Edition: [State with plate and volume numbers].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 59. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

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