Bergere de la Bourgogne [graphic]

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Title: Bergere de la Bourgogne [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [2 February 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A young woman standing on a hill-side looking away to left, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, holding a crook in the crook of her left arm with two shaggy dogs at her heels and a view of a church spire smong trees and a castle at the foot of a hill behind to left."--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.
Mounted on page 5 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 27.1 x 18.4 cm
Language: French
English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. 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: Genre prints
Etchings England London 1773
Drypoints England London 1773
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Burgundy.
France.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Clothing & dress
Shepherds
Dogs
Subjects: Peasants > France > Burgundy
Clothing & dress > France
Shepherds
Dogs
England > London > 1773
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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