Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., Mounted on page 1 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 43.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., and Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two staves of music below image., Temporary local subject terms: Advertisements: 'Buzaglo' on wooden cases -- Stoves: Buzaglo's patent -- Dances: ballet arthritique -- Quacks: Buzaglo -- Exercises for cure of gout -- Medical: wooden cases for treatment of gout -- Bootikins -- Literature: quotation from A treatise on the gout, by Abraham William Buzaglo, ca. 1716-1788, 3rd ed., p. 58-59., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1783 by P. Sandby, St. George's Row, Oxford Turnpike
