Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st March 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.03.01.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 73. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a gullible young gambler; a street scene with a group of local Newmarket men and a small boy pointing at an open-mouthed young gentleman his right hand in his pocket holding a riding whip accompanied by an Italian greyhound; a street dog defecates in front of the young man; the wall behind the men has been chalked with the name of the famous racehorse Mambrino; in the distance three men converse outside a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint statement lightly etched and barely visible., Companion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a hawk., Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket -- Slang: Pigeon., 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; sheet 24.5 x 26.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, trimmed.
In outdoor setting, a full length depiction of a clergyman in black dress and bands, with long unkempt hair and glaring expression. In his hands he holds open a book which reads "Spirituous Hymns to be sung or said standing, sitting or lying mornings or evening."
Description:
Title from item., Early state, without volume and page numbers. Cf. Library of Congress copy of the later state., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.06.25.01.2++ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1804., and Later printing.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Mounted on page 11 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; on sheet 39.0 x 49.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Seated at a table before a fireplace, a fat woman with a mountainous headress faces an ugly man as they play a game of push-pin. On the right is a sofa, while on the wall behind them 2 portraits (male on left and female on right) hang in oval frames, and a scene depicting a dancing bear and two dancing couples hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate: R.S. [i.e. Richard Sneer] artist and J.L. [i.e. John Lockington?] engraver., and Inlaid to 27 x 37 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Games, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Image above 6 stanzas of explanatory poetry engraved in double columns. A balding lady on horseback in Hyde Park's Rotten Row loses her tête or head-dress to a gust of wind, as her horse bolts toward the right. Two other horsemen as well as a gardener and other passers-by debate the identity of the fallen wig which is decorated with ostrich plumes in the fashion of the period
Alternative Title:
Fate of the tête
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, 16th April 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Piccadilly
A satire: the wife, sitting on the sofa on the right, has kicked over the table, scattering the coffee cups and has thrown something at her husband (?) who holds up his hand to protect himself as a little dog jumps on his leg and grabs the ribbon on his sword in its teeth
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication burnished from plate., and Numbered "352".
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dogs, Domestic life, Marriage, and Tea tables (Tables)
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.01.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
Alternative Title:
Sir William Waddle
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Numbered 30 in ms. on mount., and Inlaid to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
A young lady, fashionably dressed with the big hair style of the day, walks along a park pathway, towards two elderly gentlemen, one tall and thin, the other quite stout, who approach her from the left. She turns back to the right to smile at another gentleman walking behind her. The lady wears her hair in the extravagant heart-shaped style of the period, with ringlets on the sides, ribbons and ostrich plumes, and her skirt protrudes in the back over a cork bustle
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and "W.B." in lower left of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Parlt. May 4, 1777, by I. Lockington, Shug Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Walking, and Benches
