Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.06.25.01.2++ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1804., and Later printing.