Patty [graphic]

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Title: Patty [graphic]
Creator: White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, publisher.
Published / Created: [28 March 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Marh. the 28th, 1783, by C.W. White, Kemps Row, Chelsea
Abstract: "A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, first state before plate reduced to an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Two lines of verse below title: The patten now supports each frugal dame, which from the blue eyd Patty takes the name.
"Gays Poems"--Lower right corner of plate.
Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London.
Mounted on page 10 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 24.0 x 19 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 10. 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
Stipple engravings England London 1783
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
England > London > 1783
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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