Le cabriolet [graphic].

Description

Title: Le cabriolet [graphic].
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: pubd. according to act, March 17, 1771.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on the French and on fashion ...: a postillion with a long queue drives a cabriolet to the right in which is a macaroni and footman, both with elaborate hairstyle; the macaroni bows to another, behind, who carries a parasol; a dog runs beside the horses."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Later state, with publisher's name and address burnished from plate. For an earlier state with "MDarly No. 39 Strand" present after publication date, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1861,1012.341.
Attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom.
Four lines of verse in French below title: Barbares Anglois! qui du memê couteau ...
Mounted on page 81 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17.6 x 20.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.2 x 21.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French