A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image on second plate., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Dedication below image on third plate: This plate is dedicated to His Royal Highness by his most obedient humble servant, James Bretherton., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Tipped in at page 5 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Bunbury 780.03.01.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 17 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 29.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 34.3 x 37.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1st Jany. 1780 by Robert Wilkinson, at No.58 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cooks, French, Blacks, Kitchens, and Cooking utensils
"A raree-show man (right) is exhibiting his peep-show, in a box inscribed "A Vieu of Plymouth", to Lord Amherst, in profile to the right, who stoops down, his hands on his knees, to look through one of the two round holes. The showman says, "There you see Cannons without Carriages and Carriages without Cannons. There you see Generals without Orders there you see &c. &c." The show-box is supported on trestles. Amherst is in general's uniform, wearing the ribbon of the Bath. Behind him, partly cut off by the left margin of the print, stands a Grenadier at attention, holding a musket; he watches the general with a grin. Beneath the design is engraved: "Col Mushrooms Compts to Lord Am------t recommends this cheap but Satisfactory mode of viewing distant Garrisons hopes his Lordship has received the Golden Pippins a few of them are for his Secretary.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vieu of Plymouth and View of Plymouth
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M. Darly (39) Strand
Subject (Name):
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 and Great Britain. Board of Ordnance.
"View of Marble Hill, a grand house fronting the Thames, seen from the opposite shore; a large lawn lined with trees separating house from riverbank; boats on the water, a man with three horses in right foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Maison de la Comtess de Suffolk proche de Twickenham
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., No. 24, "Marble Hill," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 28, "Montpelier Row," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., Window mounted to 44 x 59 cm., and Sheet numbered "39" in a contemporary hand below printmaker's signature.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill & Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Title etched above image., Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely., Date supplied by cataloger., and Text etched within border surrounding circular image: Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg.
