Affliction [graphic]

Description

Title: Affliction [graphic]
Creator: Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 February 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne.
Mounted on page 1 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 43.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39.2 x 48 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. 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]