A general on the staff An inspecting general / [graphic]

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Title: A general on the staff An inspecting general / [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry, Sir, 1778-1860, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [23 February 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by W. Dickinson &c. Feby. 23d, 1795, No. 53 next York House, Piccadilly
Abstract: "Two designs on one plate: [1] A short, corpulent, and gouty officer with closed eyes hobbles (left to right) on crutches. Behind him (left) a taller and younger officer stands in back view. [2] An elderly officer, wearing spectacles, looks admiringly at a pretty girl (left) holding a basket of fruit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Titles from text below images.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 89 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 17.4 x 28 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 89. 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: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Stipple engravings England London 1795
Material: stipple engraving with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gout
Military officers
Crutches
Baskets
Subjects: Gout
Military officers
Crutches
Baskets
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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