[Dining scene] [art original]

Description

Title: [Dining scene] [art original]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [1765?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: An interior scene, with four people seated and presumably eating around a table on the right. A man and a woman stand apart from the others on the left, beside a fireplace. Three arched windows are seen on the wall in the background
Description: Title and date from local card catalog record.
Signed by the artist in upper left corner.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 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 drawing : sheet 58 x 89 mm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 2. 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 drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Dining tables
Eating & drinking
Fireplaces
Windows
Subjects: Interiors
Dining tables
Eating & drinking
Fireplaces
Windows
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, Dining Scene. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.