"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6912; a similar group of men in a similar room stand or sit at a rectangular table singing from a large music-book held open on the table. Punch-bowl, wine-bottle, glasses, pipes, a tumbler are on the t...
Alternative Title:
Allegresse
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Singing, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Wine, Drinking vessels, and Dogs
A scene in an artist's studio lit from an attic window (left). Four connoisseurs are grouped round a large canvas on an easel: an Apollo with a sheaf of arrows, head turned in profile to the left. The model is a tall black man in the pose of the Apoll...
"The debtor (left), a fashionably dressed man, stands meditatively at the end of a long table, stroking his chin, and looking at a bill to which one of the creditors, a butcher, points angrily: '[Squan]der Dr [to] Bluff Beef Mutton &c. £70'. The butch...
Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding...
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a hill-side looking away to left, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, holding a crook in the crook of her left arm with...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a hill-side looking away to left, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, holding a crook in the crook of her left arm with...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Six English sitting round a table in the open air playing assorted instruments, a flute, harp, violin, cello and guitar, while the sixth sings."--British Museum online catalogue
