Eques Cantab [graphic]

Description

Title: Eques Cantab [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [May 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs May 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Satire on a Cambridge academic riding to the races: a man with a macaroni queue and holding a hooked stick riding along a rode past a signpost pointing towards Newmarket and away from Cambridge; in the distance on the left a church tower rises above trees, on the right King's College Chapel and another tower."--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.
Temporary local subject terms: Cambridge: Trinity College Chapel -- Newmarket.
Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.0 x 24.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.6 x 25.6 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 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 85. 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]