Susan

Description

Title: Susan
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: Susan, a character from John Gay's The shepherd's week, stands in full profile to the left holding a grain basket from which she feeds the chickens at her feet chickens at her feet
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker's name, a variant of Shepheard, engraved several prints after Bunbury's designs in the 1790s.
Approximate date of publication inferred from impression of companion print "Buxoma" 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.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Companion print to: Buxoma.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; October 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 31 x 21.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English