The deserter [graphic]

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Title: The deserter [graphic]
Contributor: Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter.
Mounted on page 17 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 50 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. 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]

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic): Military deserters
Soldiers
Daggers & swords
Dwellings
Spinning apparatus
Children
Subjects: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 > Illustrations
Military deserters
Soldiers
Daggers & swords
Dwellings
Spinning apparatus
Children
England > London > 1784
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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