Eques Cantab [graphic]

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Title: Eques Cantab [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [May 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs May 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Satire on a Cambridge academic riding to the races: a man with a macaroni queue and holding a hooked stick riding along a rode past a signpost pointing towards Newmarket and away from Cambridge; in the distance on the left a church tower rises above trees, on the right King's College Chapel and another tower."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Cambridge: Trinity College Chapel -- Newmarket.
Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.6 x 25.6 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 85. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Drypoints England London 1772
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): University of Cambridge,
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Traffic signs & signals
Subjects: University of Cambridge
Horseback riding
Traffic signs & signals
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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