Contadin degli stati di Parma é Modena [graphic]

Description

Title: Contadin degli stati di Parma é Modena [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 February 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.9 x 18.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian
English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. 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]