Eques Cantab [graphic].

Description

Title: Eques Cantab [graphic].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Published / Created: [ca. 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Early state, before additional shading of the figures and more ground detail added in drypoint. For a later state before these additions to the plate, see no. 4724 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.1 x 16.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State before drypoint additions to the plate].
Language: English