Expectation [graphic]

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Title: Expectation [graphic]
Creator: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. Jany. 1t, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Abstract: "Two young women sitting side by side at the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking the sea, one on the right pointing upwards with her right hand, the other in profile looking out to sea on the left where a ship on fire is visible in the distance, in a circular frame; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below title: To bosoms heaving & to eyes that weep, while lovers linger in a distant clime, fear multiplies the dangers of the deep, and expectation loads the wing of time. EW [monogram].
Mounted on page 19 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 : circular image 30.3 cm, on sheet 40.6 x 36.0 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 19. 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
Etchings England London 1784
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cliffs
Women
Ships
Subjects: Cliffs
Women
Ships
England > London > 1784
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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