[Sailors at rest] from a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr. [graphic]

Description

Title: [Sailors at rest] from a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr. [graphic]
Alternative Title: From a sketch taken at Portsmouth by W.H. Bunbury Esqr
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 June 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd June 24th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Abstract: "A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 43 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 43.1 x 39 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 43. 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 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Engravings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving with brown wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Portsmouth (England)
Subject (Topic): Sailors
Drinking vessels
Boats
Ships
Subjects: Sailors
Drinking vessels
Boats
Ships
Portsmouth (England)
England > London > 1785
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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.