Buxoma
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33459905
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
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 794.00.00.220
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1794 - Material
- stipple engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic)
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Milkwomen
Lifting & carrying
Country life
Rural women
Yokes - Subjects
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Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Illustrations
Milkwomen
Lifting & carrying
Country life
Rural women
Yokes
England > London > 1794
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 991011236560908651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33459905
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