Cantab [graphic]

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Title: Cantab [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [2 May 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs May 2, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: A country rector (identified as Rev. Sam Peck, tutor, in the British Museum catalogue) rides on a cob horse towards Cambridge (as shown by the road sign); from his pocket is seen a piece of paper "[N?]ext Chap. xx". Two pigs look up at him as he rides by on the country road. In the distance is a country church; people walk around the churchyard
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Tutors -- Road to Cambridge.
Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.4 x 25.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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 19.6 x 24.2 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.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Drypoints England London 1772
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Peck, Sam, Reverend, active 1772.
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Horses
Riding
Swine
Traffic signs & signals
Subjects: Peck, Sam, Reverend, active 1772
Clergy
Horses
Riding
Swine
Traffic signs & signals
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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