[Performing dog and players] [art original]

Description

Title: [Performing dog and players] [art original]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [1765?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Four men stand at center, in front of an exterior wall or fence and beside a barrel on the left. One man plays a horn, in response to which a dog on the far right stands on its hind legs
Description: Title and date from local card catalog record.
Signed with the artist's initials in lower right portion of image.
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 54 x 84 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: Satires (Visual works) England 1765
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Trained animals
Dogs
Wind instruments
Barrels
Subjects: Trained animals
Dogs
Wind instruments
Barrels
England > 1765
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, Performing Dog and Players. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.