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

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1. Snip francois [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 December 1773]
Call Number:: Bunbury 795.12.20.02
Collection Title:: Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., 1 print on wove paper : etching with drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.9 x 14.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures erased from sheet, and year of publication in imprint altered in ms. from "1773" to "1795.", and Probably a later impression from a worn plate.
Publisher:: Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Subject (Geographic):: France and France.
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Tailors, Muffs, and Umbrellas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Snip francois [graphic]

2. Snip anglois [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 December 1773]
Call Number:: Bunbury 795.12.20.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from caption below image., Publisher inferred to be J. Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip francois., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' portfolios., 1 print on wove paper : etching with drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.2 x 15 cm, on sheet 29 x 21 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures erased from sheet, and year of publication in imprint altered in ms. from "1773" to "1795.", and Probably a later impression from a worn plate.
Publisher:: Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Snip anglois [graphic]

3. Symptoms of running away [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: publish'd 9th Jany, 1782.
Call Number:: 782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Henry Bunbury. See Bloomsbury catalogue., Place of publication based on printmaker's location., Sheet trimmed withint plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Horses, Horseback riding, Stone walls, and Wigs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of running away [graphic]

4. [A dancing bear] [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 July 1801]
Call Number:: Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 1
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., and Watermark, partially trimmed: A. Stace 1801.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]

5. [A dancing bear] [graphic]

Creator:: 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)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]

6. [Portrait of Jonas Hanway] [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [ca. 1781?]
Call Number:: Portraits H252 no. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Engraving of Thomas Orde's portrait of the British philanthropist Jonas Hanway, three-quarters length in profile looking left and seated at a table writing; with a quotation from Horace etched below the oval portrait, "En fides et pax et honor ... virtus audet. Hor. Cax. Soc."
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and Quotation etched below image: "En fides et pax et honor pudory, prisous, et neglects redire virtus audet. Hor. Car. Sec."
Publisher:: publisher identified
Subject (Name):: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786,
Subject (Topic):: Philanthropists
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Jonas Hanway] [graphic]

7. Strephon & Chloe [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 July 1801]
Call Number:: Bunbury 801.07.01.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on age and pretension: a caricatured elderly couple dancing together; behind two people laugh at them through a window; on the wall to right is a bill lettered, "Assembly / Hockley in the Hole / H Hog master of the ceremonies"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:: Strephon and Chloe
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 28 November 1772 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Remnant of former publisher's street address left unburnished below image: No. 134., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides with partial loss of statement of responsibility from right edge. Complete statement of responsibility from earlier state in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Pub'd July 1, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccdilly [sic]
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Strephon & Chloe [graphic]

8. The Salutation Tavern [graphic]

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 July 1801]
Call Number:: Bunbury 801.07.21.02+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:: Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement and text below image burnished out, of a print originally published 20 March 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4716 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Watermark., and Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:: Pub'd July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, Wigs, Bowing, Etiquette, and Plazas
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Salutation Tavern [graphic]

9. [A boy with a bird's nest and a girl with a basket] [graphic].

Creator:: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1774?]
Call Number:: 774.00.00.42
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Printmaker identified by previous owner., and Publication date suggested by dealer.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Birds, Children, and Nests
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A boy with a bird's nest and a girl with a basket] [graphic].