[Peasant and priest] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Peasant and priest] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Peasant in sabots walking with priest
Peasant and monk
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [1770]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire: two figures on the left side of the plate, the right half being empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram.
Proof state?
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Priests.
Mounted on page 10a in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.5 x 16.3 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 14.5 x 16.5 cm, on sheet 14.9 x 16.8 cm
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. 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
Drypoints England London 1770
Material: drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Clergy
Subjects: Peasants
Clergy
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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