The Paris shoe cleaner [graphic].

Description

Title: The Paris shoe cleaner [graphic].
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. July 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "A seated man wearing sabots holding shoe and brush, with a sign 'De Croteur Monsieur on pratique pour un livre'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4679 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner.
First of three plates on leaf 60.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 14.8 x 11 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 14.9 x 11 cm, on sheet 24.7 x 16 cm
Edition: [State with plate and volume numbers].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 60. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Street vendors
Shoe shining
Brooms & brushes
Subjects: Clothing & dress > France > 1770-1780
Street vendors
Shoe shining
Brooms & brushes
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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