Nancy [graphic]

Description

Title: Nancy [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 January 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry at Cox Heath in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', standing on a hill above a military camp at left which she points towards, a cabin with letters 'CW' on the side and smoking chimney behind; after Bunbury, published state after change of title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate originally published with the title "Miss Walpole" and without the verses below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,66.33.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: My Nancy leaves the rural plain, a camps distress to prove; All other ills she can sustain, but living from her love.
Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner.
Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.9 x 18.2 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from upper left corner.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.0 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 14. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 99. 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]