The mouse's petition [graphic]

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Title: The mouse's petition [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 November 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, 39 Fleet Street
Abstract: "Dr Priestley sitting at a garden table, looking at a mouse in a semi-circular cage, smiling as he listens to Mrs Barbauld who stands pleading for its release and another woman and Charles Rochemond Aikin, a little boy look on, with trees all around; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Sixteen lines of verse below image, eight on either side of title: Oh! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer, for liberty that sighs; and never let thine heart be shut against a wretch's cries ... Vide Mrs. Barbauld's poem.
Mounted on page 82 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 43.0 x 50.8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 82. 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
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Engravings England London 1791
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Barbauld, Mrs. 1743-1825. (Anna Letitia),
Barbauld, Mrs. 1743-1825, (Anna Letitia),
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804,
Subject (Topic): Gardens
Tables
Mice
Cages
Boys
Subjects: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825 > Illustrations
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Gardens
Tables
Mice
Cages
Boys
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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