[A French postillion] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [A French postillion] [art original].
- Creator
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1770]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
A French postillion, wearing huge boots, gestures with his arms outspread to the right
- Description
-
Title and date from those supplied in the British Museum catalog for the print made after this drawing.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Mounted with one other drawing on page 8 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Original design for no. 4746 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. - 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 drawing : sheet 13.4 x 8.7 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 1, page 8. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Ink drawings British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Boots
Coach drivers - Subjects
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Boots
Coach drivers
England > 1770
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Henry William Bunbury, A French Postillion. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15573570
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355496