A game at chess [graphic]

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Title: A game at chess [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Abstract: "Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted on page 17 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : etching and drypoint in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 29.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 34.3 x 37.4 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 : oval image 29.7 x 36 cm, on plate 33.9 x 38 cm, on sheet 36 x 55 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 17. 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: Etchings England London 1780
Drypoints England London 1780
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Chess
Tables
Columns
Draperies
Dogs
Subjects: Chess
Tables
Columns
Draperies
Dogs
England > London > 1780
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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