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1.
Commodore St. Jago returning victorious [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 22d. 1782.
Call Number:
782.01.22.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
British and England
Subject (Name):
Johnstone, George, 1730-1787.
Subject (Topic):
Military officers and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Commodore St. Jago returning victorious [graphic]

2.
Ex museo Neapolitano [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780]
Call Number:
780.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Subject of print from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pugnani, Gaetano, 1731-1798
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ex museo Neapolitano [graphic]

3.
Look neighbours look [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
published Septr. 1, 1781.
Call Number:
781.09.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Rural women, Churches, Cemeteries, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Look neighbours look [graphic]

4.
Orator Hum [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 30th 1782.
Call Number:
782.01.30.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A bust portrait in profile to the right of Dunning (cr. Baron Ashburton 30 Mar. 1782), wearing a legal wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Lawyers and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Orator Hum [graphic]

5.
Postiglione Germanico [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[April 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.04.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on postillions: a German postilion smoking a pipe, wearing a coat with a double-headed eagle on the sleeve and a horn hung from a cord at his side, holding a whip; he stands beside steps leading to the door of a building with a dog at his side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., and Watermark, trimmed: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, German, Pipes (Smoking), Whips, and Dogs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Postiglione Germanico [graphic]

6.
Postiglione Inglese [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[April 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.04.00.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on postillions: an English postilion in breeches and tight-fitting boots, holding a whip stands outside an inn with a sign of "The Old Kings head. T. Golightly from Hounslow" beside a milestone "XIV Miles to London"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., State from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark, trimmed: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 1772 by I. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Coach drivers and Postillions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Postiglione Inglese [graphic]

7.
The delights of Islington [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.04.30.02 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the newly-rich owner of a suburban villa and garden at Islington: an ill-dressed man stands facing front, legs apart leaning on a stick and staring angrily as he complains about damage to his property; his hat lies on the ground beside him; behind on the left is a gazebo raised on a pillar around which winds a staircase, on the right is an obelisk surmounted by a huge sphere; a high wall beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Nine lines of prose within rectangular border at top of design: Whereas my new pagoda has been clandestinely carried off & a new pair of dolphins ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Pseudonyms: Jeremiah Sago -- Cockney speech.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Gardens, Gazebos, and Obelisks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The delights of Islington [graphic]

8.
The sailor's return from Portsmouth to London [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 March 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.03.02.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable artist attribution to H.W. Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 2, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Sailors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sailor's return from Portsmouth to London [graphic]

9.
[A portrait of Mr. William Lynch, seller of pamphlets] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 February 1774]
Call Number:
774.02.29.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An etching, representing an elderly man standing upright, turned in three-quarters view to our right, with his hands joined behind him. In the breast of his coat many books are "stuffed"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title supplied from the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from contemporary manuscript note: Publish'd Febry. 29, 1774., A date of 1769 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quote below image: Cleanse thy stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff (Shakes. Mack.)., Two lines of description below quote: Taken from the life Jany 1769 & now by desire of several of his old customers dedicated to [the] pious & decent memory of Mr. Wm. Lynch., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, line 44 -- William Lynch, publisher, d. 1770? -- Booksellers., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand at bottom of plate: Publish'd Fbr. 29, 1774.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A portrait of Mr. William Lynch, seller of pamphlets] [graphic]

10.
[French peasant] [graphic]

Creator:
Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1780s]
Call Number:
780.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title assigned and date conjectured by cataloger., Publisher's formation added in contemporary hand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possible photomechanical reprint.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress and Peasants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [French peasant] [graphic]