[A French postillion] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A French postillion] [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A French postillion, wearing huge boots, gestures with his arms outspread to the right
Description: Title and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with drypoint additions to design. For an earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770.
Mounted on page 10a in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 12.3 x 8.2 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 : plate mark 121 x 82 mm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Edition: [State with background elements, printmaker's signature, and figure's sleeve decoration added].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 10a. 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 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Coach drivers
Boots
Subjects: Coach drivers
Boots
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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