An album compiled by Sir Henry Edward Bunbury containing character studies and humorous depictions of coaching, hunting, military, domestic scenes, dogs, and people (mostly caricatures) from a variety of social stations, drawn by him or his father in ...
Description:
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860), a professional military officer and later, member of Parliament and published historian, was also a caricaturist whose work is very similar to that of his father, Henry William Bunbury (1750-181...
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Clegy, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Couples, Dogs, Hunting, Judges, and Servants
Drawing in red chalk on hand-ruled paper by an unidentified artist, of the decorative cartouche for John Mitchell's Map of the British and French dominions in North America. Represented in the drawing are two Native American figures in the lower right...
Description:
John Mitchell (1711-1768), was a British botanist, physician, and cartographer. He created A Map of the British and French dominions in North America (London: Andrew Millar, 1755), also known as the Mitchell Map, later used in negotiating the 1783 Tre...
A soldier, possibly from the English Civil War, looks with shock towards an arrow embedded in his chest. He sits, surrounded by foliage, holding a dagger in his right hand
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, War casualties, Arrows, and Daggers & swords
A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria ...
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
