Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1774]
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.02.23.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: a coachman half asleep, in brown breeches and waistcoat and green coat, his stockings falling down; a huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo, in brown, with a blue and white kerchief; and a rather drowsy black boy in brown breeches and green waistcoat with sleeves. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock, brown with a yellow face. There are two drawings pinned to the wall, the top one of a fat gentleman in blue asleep in a chair, the other of a bald man in brown
Description:
Title and publication date from later state., Early state. For later state with title, imprint, and other text added below image, see Lewis Walpole call no.: Bunbury 774.02.23.01.2+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side of upper edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals., Imperfect; printmaker's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet., An additional shelf with five plates added in watercolor to upper left corner of design., Title added below image in a contemporary hand: High life below stairs., and Lines of dialogue added below image in a contemporary hand: Blackee you go! Cook, Sambo, answer the door. Cookey you go!
"Landscape with the Finding of Moses; shepherd reclining on rocks in foreground, a group of women on the shore of a river beyond, a tower and bridge in mid-distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire
Description:
Title from descriptive catalog at beginning of bound volume., Text below image: From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire., One of two hundred plates that were later issued in bound volumes entitled: Liber veritatis. Or, A collection of two hundred prints ... / after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain ... executed by Richard Earlom ... London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, [1777-1819]., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 48., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 1st, 1774, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Portrait of Thomas Wood, standing whole-length directed slightly to right, his right hand tucked into his coat, left hand at his side, a bunch of flowers at left lapel, in an ordered garden with windmills in the background; after Ogborne; unlettered proof before margin cleared
Description:
Title, artist and publication information from Chaloner Smith. and Engraved from a painting by David Ogborne. Cf. Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Publish'd March the 1st 1774, by John Thane, printseller and medalist in Gerrard Street, Soho
