Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1781]
Call Number:
Bunbury 781.03.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman is sitting at a spinning wheel, her staff and hat on the ground in front of her and a dog asleep beside her. She is putting on a bunch of flowers. In the distance is a man on horseback, a tower, and a hill
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyon...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum onl...
Description:
Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Volume 2, page 80. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury....
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fences, Children, Dogs, Campfires, and Pots & pans
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 March 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 10. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, first state befo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Marh. the 28th, 1783, by C.W. White, Kemps Row, Chelsea
Susan, a character from John Gay's The shepherd's week, stands in full profile to the left holding a grain basket from which she feeds the chickens at her feet chickens at her feet
