[Pot Fair. Cambridge] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Pot Fair. Cambridge] [graphic].
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created: [not before 25 June 1777]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from later state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f.
"A proof before all letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.809.
For a later state with lettering, published 25 June 1777, see no. 4729 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel.
Mounted on page 121 of: Bunbury album.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38.9 x 49 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: No linguistic content