The deserter [graphic]

Description

Title: The deserter [graphic]
Contributor: Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter.
Mounted on page 127 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 39.3 x 49.9 cm
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39.2 x 50 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 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. 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]