Peasants of the Vale of Llangollen [graphic]

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Title: Peasants of the Vale of Llangollen [graphic]
Creator: Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828.
Baldrey, John, 1758- publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 1, 1781, by J. Baldrey, No. 37 Green St., Grosr. Sqr. & sold by J. Wilkinson, Cornhill
Abstract: "A man, woman and child walking alongside a pack-horse, travelling to right on a road with mountains behind; oval design, after Bunbury, from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey, and was published by the former; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2314.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner.
Mounted on page 6 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Plate number in upper left is lightly printed and barely visible.
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 : circular image 24 cm, on sheet 27.9 x 28 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 6. 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
Stipple engravings England London 1781
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Wales.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Horses
Pack animals
Subjects: Peasants > Wales
Horses
Pack animals
England > London > 1781
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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