[Country girl offering a soldier a drink] [graphic].

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Title: [Country girl offering a soldier a drink] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Girl offering beer to a soldier
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [23 January 1783]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a soldier, who stands to right, leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hat and looking curiously at her; in a roundel; unlettered proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton f.
Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publish'd 23d Jany. 1783.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 12 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 29 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 31 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. 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]

Genre: Drinking vessels
Etchings England London 1783
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Soldiers
Rifles
Dwellings
Girls
Pitchers
Subjects: Soldiers
Rifles
Dwellings
Girls
Pitchers
England > London > 1783
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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