Blouzelind [graphic]

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Title: Blouzelind [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.831.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
The name "Gay" follows title, etched in small letters.
Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'.
Companion print to: Black-eyed Susan.
Mounted on page 83 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 40.4 x 35.3 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 83. 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: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Engravings England London 1792
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Spinning apparatus
Corsages
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Spinning apparatus
Corsages
England > London > 1792
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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