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

Description

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 27 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.6 x 27.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : circular image 29 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 31 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (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]