Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker

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172. John Jehu l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 March 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.03.06.01 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Coachmen., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G.R. below.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs 6th March 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Jehu l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

173. John Jehu l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [6 March 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.03.06.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Coachmen., 1 print on laid paper : etching and drypoint, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 17.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges with loss of imprint.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs 6th March 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Jehu l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

174. The village barber, L.M l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 March 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.03.01.02.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on a country barber-surgeon: a bespectacled man holding a lancet and razor stands in profile to right, a basin under his right arm, beside his shop-sign which bears an image of a wig; the village stocks can be seen beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Later state with slight alterations in design. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Surgery -- Lancet -- Scratches -- Food: Reference to sausages -- Reference to washballs -- Reference to black pudding -- Red herrings -- Medicine: Reference to Scotch pills -- Reference to powder for the itch.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs March 1, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Barbering, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Shaving equipment, Signs (Notices), Stocks (Punishment), and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The village barber, L.M l'Inghilterra / [graphic]

175. The Fish-Street macaroni [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [29 March 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.03.29.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:: Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on a prosperous City of London merchant: a portly man, grinning happily, beside the entrance to a suburban pleasure garden called "The New Paradise" to which "No Gentlemen or Ladies to be admitted with Nails in their Shoes. Recreation & Refreshment at 6d. pr. Head"; he wears an embroidered waistcoat and carries a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Tea gardens: 'The New Paradise,' Fish-Street., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs March 29, 1772, by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street No. 134
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Merchants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Fish-Street macaroni [graphic]

176. The morning news [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 December 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.12.10.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Page 69. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A group of men standing outside a dilapidated building, part of which is visible on the right. One, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, holds in his left hand a torn paper on which parts of words are visible: "[Pet]itio[n] ... [Fr]eehold[rs] . . . Minist[ry] . . ." His right forefinger is extended as if laying down the law to his companions. On his right stands a man holding his chin with an expression of deep thought. In his right hand is (?) a turncock. Next him (left) is an artisan, listening intently, his breeches unfastened at the knee, his stockings ungartered; he holds a short hammer and is probably a shoemaker. Behind (right) a man wearing a waistcoat over a ruffled shirt, but no coat, lounges against the stump of a tree and listens open-mouthed. On the top of the stump is an open dish of food which a dog is eating, his head twisted backwards in a peculiar manner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Artist identified as Bunbury in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: The rabble gather round the man of news and listen with their mouths. Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it, and he that lyes most loud is most beleiv'd [sic]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching with drypoint, on laid paper ; sheet 233 x 257 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs 10th December 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Dogs, City & town life, and Newspapers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The morning news [graphic]

177. A Sunday evening [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.12.07.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 239 x 295 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of image from top edge.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Families, Sleeping, Candles, Dogs, and Cats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Sunday evening [graphic]

178. I will pay no more debts of her contracting [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 December 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.12.07.01 Impression 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Letter "S" in "Street" in imprint etched backwards., and Temporary local subject terms: Mercers.
Publisher:: Publish'd 7th December 1772 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I will pay no more debts of her contracting [graphic]

179. I will pay no more debts of her contracting [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 December 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.12.07.01 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Letter "S" in "Street" in imprint etched backwards., Temporary local subject terms: Mercers., 1 print : etching with drypoint, hand-colored on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 16.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint.
Publisher:: Publish'd 7th December 1772 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I will pay no more debts of her contracting [graphic]

180. Masquerade scene, Kensington Gardens [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1772]
Call Number:: Bunbury 772.07.02.04.2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Sam Sharp-Eye is the pseudonym of an undetermined artist; questionable attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with imprint mostly burnished out, of a plate originally published 2 July 1772 by J. Bretherton. See no. 5083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Text within etched banner in top part of design: Jack on a cruise. A missey in [the] offing., Temporary local subject terms: Cavendish, Elizabeth, d. 1779 -- Horace Walpole refers to subject of print, YW. 9. 171, n. 7, 8; 31. 53, n. 18 -- Masquerades -- Costume, 1772., and Watermark, mostly trimmed: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs [...]
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Masquerade scene, Kensington Gardens [graphic]