Welch peasants [graphic]

Description

Title: Welch peasants [graphic]
Alternative Title: Welsh peasants
Creator: Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 August 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augst. 20th, 1788, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
Abstract: Three figures, two women and a boy, walk in a country landscape. The woman at center balances a basket atop her head, while the woman on the right balances a jug atop hers. On the left, the boy struggles to carry a basket in both arms
Description: Title from text below image.
Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 64 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 : oval image 28.3 x 23 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 64. 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: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1788
Engravings England London 1788
Material: stipple engraving and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Wales.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Baskets
Pitchers
Subjects: Peasants > Wales
Baskets
Pitchers
England > London > 1788
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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