[A postillion] [graphic].

Description

Title: [A postillion] [graphic].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking over his right shoulder towards the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description: Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with position of the figure's head altered and with additional shading added to the foreground. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below plate mark: Etched by Mr. Bunbury.
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 15.5 x 10.3 cm
Edition: [State with figure looking over shoulder].
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115. 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 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Postillions
French
Boots
Whips
Coach drivers
Subjects: Postillions > French
Boots
Whips
Coach drivers
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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