Charlotte [graphic]
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17355627
Description
- Title
- Charlotte [graphic]
- Creator
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher. - Published / Created
- [21 August 1783]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd August 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"A woman seated in profile to right, holding a handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a trumpet; in a roundel; after H Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title from text below image.
State with dedication added above imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.953.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of text below title: The shade of my mother hovers round me, when in a still evening I sit in the midst of her children, I wish that she could look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the promise I made her to be a mother to them. Sorrows of Werter
Dedication etched above imprint statement: To the Honble. Miss Grenville, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated by her most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson.
Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther.
Mounted on page 14 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 : circular image 30 cm, on sheet 40.0 x 36 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 2, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 5. Bunbury album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
- Collection Date
- [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Book illustrations
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1783
Etchings England London 1783
A la poupée prints England London 1783 - Material
- stipple engraving and etching, à la poupée ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic)
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Children
Trumpets
Books - Subjects
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 > Illustrations
Children
Trumpets
Books
England > London > 1783
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15377666
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355627
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