Louisa [graphic]

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Title: Louisa [graphic]
Creator: Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 February 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 24th Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A woman standing to right waving farewell to a figure escorted by two soldiers, in the distance at right, at left the corner of a building and part of a tree trunk with broken branch; oval design, after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below title: What so tender, at parting, he told me, which such joy, to my bosom convey'd, when next he was doom'd to behold me, cou'd I think of being this way repaid.
Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter.
Mounted on page 87 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 22.9 x 19 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 22 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 87. 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 1795
Engravings England London 1795
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic): Military deserters
Farewells
Soldiers
Tree trunks
Subjects: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 > Illustrations
Military deserters
Farewells
Soldiers
Tree trunks
England > London > 1795
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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