A mendicant [graphic]

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Title: A mendicant [graphic]
Creator: Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [8 March 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 8th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A friar standing in a landscape, a walking stick in his left hand and his hat down by his side in his right, a sack slung over his shoulder; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"Second published state, after publication line altered"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.823.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Text below title: It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale, penetrating, free from all common place ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this world. Vide Sterne.
Illustration to Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey through France and Italy.
Mounted on page 90 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 37.7 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 90. 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 1794
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic): Monks
Beggars
Staffs (Sticks)
Bags
Hats
Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 > Illustrations
Monks
Beggars
Staffs (Sticks)
Bags
Hats
England > London > 1794
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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