Marian [graphic]

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Title: Marian [graphic]
Creator: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, 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, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Fourteen lines of verse below image, seven on either side of title: Last Friday's eve, when, as the sun was set, I, near yon stile, three sallow gipsies met ... Vide Gay's Pastorals.
Mounted on page 80 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 43.1 x 51 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 80. 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): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic): Baskets
Fences
Children
Dogs
Campfires
Pots & pans
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Baskets
Fences
Children
Dogs
Campfires
Pots & pans
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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