Love at first sight

Description

Title: Love at first sight
Creator: Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 January 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury. After initial publication by Macklin in 1796, these plates were reissued by J. Deeley in 1809 and reissued again by S.W. Fores in 1819. For reference to the set published by Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
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 29.8 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 93. 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 1796
Stipple engravings England London 1796
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Soldiers
Horses
Baskets
Fishermen
Fish
Dogs
Subjects: Soldiers
Horses
Baskets
Fishermen
Fish
Dogs
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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