Morning employments [graphic]

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Title: Morning employments [graphic]
Creator: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
White, Charles, 1751-1825, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 June 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. June 14, 1784, by T. Macklin, No. 39 Fleet Street & C. White, Stafford Row, Pimlico
Abstract: "A young woman playing 'the ballad of Auld Robin Gray' on a harpsichord (inscribed with the maker's name Thomas Kirkman) with a dog standing at her feet, beside another is employed with needlework, a small boy leaning on her leg and reaching up towards her, a third girl stands at the back with a shuttle and thread in hand, an oval frame on the wall behind; oval design, after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 21 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 36 cm, on sheet 42.9 x 40 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 21. 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
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Young adults
Children
Harpsichords
Needlework
Sewing equipment & supplies
Subjects: Young adults
Children
Harpsichords
Needlework
Sewing equipment & supplies
England > London > 1784
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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