A city hunt [graphic]

Description

Title: A city hunt [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1780?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image on second plate.
A single design on three plates.
Sheets trimmed within plate mark.
Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales.
Dedication below image on third plate: This plate is dedicated to His Royal Highness by his most obedient humble servant, James Bretherton.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Tipped in at page 5 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: 3 prints forming 1 image : sheets 60 x 57 cm or smaller
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 5. 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: Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Material: etching with rocker ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Accidents
Carriages & coaches
Dogs
Hunting
Hunting accidents
Subjects: Accidents
Carriages & coaches
Dogs
Hunting
Hunting accidents
England > 1780
England > London > 1780
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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