[Beauty and beast] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Beauty and beast] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Monk and a young maid
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 June 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: W. Dickinson
Abstract: "A young woman standing with a basket on her crossed arms, returning the smile of a fat monk at left with a contemptuous expression; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Early state, before title and imprint statement added. For a later state with imprint present, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.125.
Publication information from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on page 97 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 32.9 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 97. 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 1790
Stipple engravings England London 1790
Engravings England London 1790
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Monks
Smiling
Women
Young adults
Baskets
Subjects: Monks
Smiling
Women
Young adults
Baskets
England > 1790
England > London > 1790
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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