Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering and before drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering but after drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 129. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Landscape, with rolling hills dotted with trees in the distance, a cloud-filled sky above. Several houses sit at the base of the hills, in the middle distance at left; a field separates the houses from a river, which curves from the left towards the center foreground, a forest extending from its right bank to the edge of the image. Scraggly shrubs and small trees are seen in the immediate foreground; a stag stands in the lower right corner of the image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date of publication supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 129 of: Bunbury album.
"A maid in simple dress sitting in profile to right on a rock in a hilly landscape, holding the handle of a bucket on the ground beside her, a figure on horseback on a path about to crest the hill in the distance at right; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Initial letters form a monogram in both artist's name and printmaker's name in signatures., "First state with scratched letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.121., For a later state, published 20 May 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by E. Hedges, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3004., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Cicely., and Mounted on page 31 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1 March 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 53. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to British Museum Satires No. 4719."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Catchpenny Alley
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, with artist and printmaker signatures only. For a later state with title, publication line, and drypoint shading of the image added, see no. 4717 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Date inferred from publication line on later state: Publish'd 1st March 1777., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Campanion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a pigeon., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket., and Mounted on page 53 of: Bunbury album.
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 99. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from earlier state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on earlier state: H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delt. ; C.W. White sculpt., Later state, with image reduced to an oval and background elements added. For an earlier state published 28 March 1783 by C.W. White, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1940,1109.114., Sheet trimmed to oval shape along border of image, with possible loss of text., Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
Volume 1, page 10a. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: two figures on the left side of the plate, the right half being empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peasant in sabots walking with priest and Peasant and monk
Description:
Title devised by curator., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Proof state?, Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Priests., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.5 x 16.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title and date supplied by curator., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to a circular shape with possible loss of image and text., and Mounted on page 95 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 25 June 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 121. Bunbury album.
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 of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: Mr. Bunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., "A proof before all letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.809., For a later state with lettering, published 25 June 1777, see no. 4729 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., and Mounted on page 121 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 January 1785]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Pages 139, 141, 143. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text on reissued state, published by J. Harris on 1 March 1799; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.03.01.01., For a slightly later state, with the date following printmaker's name changed from "Jany." to "March", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 785.03.25.01., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on pages 139, 141, and 143 of: Bunbury album., and Individual plates of the design are mounted on separate pages, instead of being joined at their ends to create a single image.
