[Children discovering empty bird cage] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Children discovering empty bird cage] [graphic].
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1780?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title devised by curator.
Artist attribution based on an impression of the print being included in Horace Walpole's bound collection of works by and after Henry William Bunbury.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 15 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 12.7 x 10 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 15. 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: Genre prints
Etchings England London 1780
Material: etching in brown ink with brown wash and touches of color ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Children
Birdcages
Subjects: Children
Birdcages
England > London > 1780
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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