Black-George [graphic]

Description

Title: Black-George [graphic]
Creator: Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 January 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd January 5th, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of a man wearing large-brimmed and feathered hat and carrying a rifle over his shoulder, his catch attached to his belt, which two of the six dogs grouped around him look at with interest at left; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"First state with etched letters, before re-publication"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.442.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 73 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 50.6 x 38 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 73. 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 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Engravings England London 1791
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Black people
Hunters
Rifles
Dogs
Subjects: Black people
Hunters
Rifles
Dogs
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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