Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 July 1801]
Call Number:
Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
Description:
Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print on laid paper : etching and drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 32 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures mostly erased from sheet., Watermark: J. Whatman 179[...?]., and Publisher's stamp (partially trimmed) in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.[F.].
Publisher:
Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)