[A dancing bear] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A dancing bear] [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd 1st April 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description: Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.2 x 27.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English