[Lady Ann Bothwells lament] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Lady Ann Bothwells lament] [graphic].
Creator
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created
[20 January 1784]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract

"Lady Bothwell sitting beside a cot, where a child lies sleeping, her hands raised, looking down at it sorrowfully, while another sits with her back to the viewer, pouring a cup and a lady wearing a beret stands in the doorway in the background to right, looking out; in a roundel; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from later state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by F. Bartolozzi.
State with publication line only. For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and dedication added below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0514.1597.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to the ballad 'Lady Ann Bothwell's lament'.
Mounted on page 18 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Title "Lady Bothwell's lamentation" added by Horace Walpole in ink below image, beneath which he also added the verses "Ballow, my babe, lie still and sleep, it grieves me sore to see thee weep".
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 : image diameter 29.8 cm, on sheet 40.8 x 35.7 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title
Volume 2, page 18. 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]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Illustrations
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
A la poupée prints England London 1784
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
stipple engraving and etching, à la poupée ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic)
Cribs (Children's beds)
Infants
Grief
Pitchers
Subjects
Bothwell, Ann, Lady
Cribs (Children's beds)
Infants
Grief
Pitchers
England > London > 1784
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
15378314
Object ID (OID)
17355624

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