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10. Billiards [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 23, 1799.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 294 x 387 mm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges and artist's signature erased from sheet., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]
11. Billiards [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 23, 1799.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Billiard rooms, Billiards, Servants, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billiards [graphic]
12. The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury Drawer 799.03.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption running along the bottom of the three plates., Reissue, with title and imprint statement added, of a print probably first published in 1785. For earlier state lacking title and imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., A single design on three plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
- Publisher:
- Published March 1, 1799, by J. Harris, No. 3, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Easter hunt at Epping Forest [graphic]
13. The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Christmas academics
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 20 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Teachers, Card games, Wine, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Xmas academics a combination game at whist / [graphic]
14. A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to foreign parts [graphic]
15. Symptoms of rearing [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly country parson, in profile to the right, on a horse which rears almost vertically, he clasps the animal round the neck, and is seated on his hind-quarters, having lost his stirrups and slipped from the saddle. His whip flies through the air behind him, his coat-tails fly out, and the sheets of his sermon inscribed 'IOB' protrude from his pocket. A small dog (left) rushing towards the animal's hind-legs and barking furiously appears to have caused the 'symptoms of rearing'. The parish clerk, with two large volumes under his arm, beside the horse, looks over his right shoulder and stoops or runs to escape being trampled on. Trees and a church steeple are indicated in the background (right). A similar subject to British Museum Satires Nos. 5914-17, also by Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 January 1783. Cf. No. 6340 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Dogs, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of rearing [graphic]
16. Moses [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stout, complacent-looking man rides a small horse in profile to the left. He has a very bad seat and is pulling hard on the curb; the animal puts down its head. A servant on a rough-looking pony canters behind him, carrying a basket of hay and a triangular box or package (perhaps his master's hat-box) under his left arm. The scene is a country road, with a signpost (left) pointing 'To Hackney, To Isling[ton'], and (down a turning on the right of the riders) to 'Shoredi[tch]'. The post stresses the idea conveyed in the drawing, that this is a citizen riding to or from his country-box in the suburbs."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Jan. 1783. Cf. no. 6339 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Original imprint statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still faintly visible below image in lower right., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Published Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Horseback riding, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Moses [graphic]
17. [Two monks] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two monks, one on the left with his hands tucked inside his sleeves at his waist, turned towards the viewer, the other in profile to right, holding a rosary at his side; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title supplied by cataloger., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.822., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Topic):
- Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Two monks] [graphic]
18. Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 February 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.02.27.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Feb. 1782. Cf. no. 4185 in v. 4 and see p. 658 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Englishman at Paris, 1767 [graphic]
