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)
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)
"An etching, representing an elderly man standing upright, turned in three-quarters view to our right, with his hands joined behind him. In the breast of his coat many books are "stuffed"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title supplied from the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from contemporary manuscript note: Publish'd Febry. 29, 1774., A date of 1769 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quote below image: Cleanse thy stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff (Shakes. Mack.)., Two lines of description below quote: Taken from the life Jany 1769 & now by desire of several of his old customers dedicated to [the] pious & decent memory of Mr. Wm. Lynch., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, line 44 -- William Lynch, publisher, d. 1770? -- Booksellers., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand at bottom of plate: Publish'd Fbr. 29, 1774.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 10th Jany. 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.10.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A postilion standing holding his whip dangling before him
Alternative Title:
Postillion
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.95., Alternative title from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 18.6 x 29.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.10.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 18.5 x 29.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm., and Watermark: J. B[...?] 180[?].
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!
