Buxoma

Description

Title: Buxoma
Creator: Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1794]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Buxoma, a character from John Gay's The shepherd's week, is seen carrying pales on a shoulder yolk through a rural landscape
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker is likely George Shepheard despite the spelling his last name as "Shepherd" in printmaker's signature. Shepheard engraved several prints after Bunbury's designs in the 1790s, with one such print (supplied title "Home from market") having the name spelled "Shepherd" on earlier state (Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563) and being corrected to "Shepheard" on later state (British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1890,0415.321).
Approximate date of publication inferred from variant state bearing the imprint "London : Publish'd May 29th, 1794 by J. Read Pall Mall"; see Morgan Library & Museum accession no.: 1986.263.
Four lines of verse beneath title: The wanton calf may skip with many a bound, And my cur Tray play deftest feats around, But neither lamb nor kid, nor calf, nor Tray, Dance like Buxoma on the first of May. Gay.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Companion print to: Susan.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; October 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30 x 21.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English