Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 January 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 12. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A country girl sitting outside a thatched cottage, holding a jug in one hand and offering a glass to a soldier, who stands to right, leaning on his gun, wearing a cocked hat and looking curiously at her; in a roundel; unlettered proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Girl offering beer to a soldier
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton f., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publish'd 23d Jany. 1783., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 12 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Drawing showing the elevation of a three-bay, Gothic-style house with a porch, battlement-style parapet, and two-bay arched windows in roof. On verso a square in ink with small extension of the lines in pencil
Description:
Title devised by curator., Watermark in center of sheet: IV., One of 11 drawings numbered 56-66 by W.S. Lewis, continuing the numbering used for an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., and Date based on creation date of album.
A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
Alternative Title:
Drawings by De Wint
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Wales
Subject (Topic):
Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
Title assigned by curator., Signed lower right: "E.E." [i.e. Edward Edwards]., Image on contemporary mount with wash lines and gold ink., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Title devised by curator., Scale below image, with contemporary mss. notation: "A scale of feets.", Formerly housed as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from collective title on published state., Artist attributions from statements of responsibility on published state., Proof state of a plate published in: The lady's magazine, v. 3 (New Series) no. 12, December 1822. For a later state with collective title, captions etched under each image, and expanded statements of responsibility, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 81., and Two images on one plate, with printmaker's signature etched below lower image.
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner., and Date based on time period after the completion of Fonthill Abbey and before the final collapse of the tower.
Title from annotation in a modern hand written in pencil below plate mark., Artist and printmaker from pencil annotations in a contemporary hand below image: J. Buckler del. ; Thos. Higham., Probably a proof state., and Date based on the timing of the final collapse of the Fonthill Abbey tower, which occurred in 1825.
Title devised by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Water wells -- Children at play -- Lawn rollers -- Cottages -- Boats -- Hounds., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 20, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Blacksmiths, Dueling, Dwellings, Occupations, Rabbits, and Sedan chairs
