Affliction [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Affliction [graphic]
- Creator
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher. - Published / Created
- [21 February 1783]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne.
Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 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 print : sheet 39.2 x 48 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
- Collection Date
- [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Aquatints England London 1783
Stipple engravings England London 1783
Etchings England London 1783 - Material
- aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching in brown ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Langhorne, John, 1735-1779.
- Subject (Topic)
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Mountains
Infants
Wounds & injuries
Dogs - Subjects
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Langhorne, John, 1735-1779 > Illustrations
Mountains
Infants
Wounds & injuries
Dogs
England > London > 1783
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15377663
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355520
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