Gleaners [graphic]

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Title: Gleaners [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "Three women in a field, one kneeling at left fastening corn into a bundle, another carrying hers on her head, the third behind, turned away with the grain under her arm, a boy sits playing a pipe at right, a building with tower behind; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 51 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 : oval image 31.9 x 38 cm, on sheet 40.1 x 46 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 51. 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 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Harvesting
Sheaves
Wind instruments
Dogs
Subjects: Harvesting
Sheaves
Wind instruments
Dogs
England > London > 1787
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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