An old woman in street attire and a hat is seated on a chair, her left hand raised in admonishment, her right on the hip of a young girl who stands before her weeping. The girl is flanked on either side by an angry man gesticulating with his walking stick and another woman, also weeping
Alternative Title:
Miss willing to be in the ton
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Later variant of no. 4631 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Printed for Ino. Smith, No.35, Cheapside as the act directs
An old woman in street attire and a hat is seated on a chair, her left hand raised in admonishment, her right on the hip of a young girl who stands before her weeping. The girl is flanked on either side by an angry man gesticulating with his walking stick and another woman, also weeping
Alternative Title:
Miss willing to be in the ton
Description:
Title from item. and Reduced and later version of no. 4631 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Under a large tree on the outskirts of a village, a Gypsy woman holds the hand of one of a pair of pretty, fashionably dressed young ladies as she tells her fortune. The young woman hides her face behind her fan. A little Gypsy girl glasps the skirts of her mother
Alternative Title:
Sweet little Gypsy
Description:
Title engraved below image., Thirty-four lines of verse in four columns printed below title: Come hither, ye girls, and attend to my call ..., Plate numbered "365" in lower left below image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Romanies, Clothing & dress, Fortune telling, Girls, and Women
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's active dates., Publisher supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Ode to Beauty'. Beside her sits a dog clipped in the French manner. The others stand facing her, one closing her eyes and clasping her hands, the other, who holds a fan, leers at her companion. These two wear nosegays. All have high-waisted dress with sashes. The reader wears a straw hat tied on with a scarf. Behind her is a tree on whose trunk letters are carved: 'W' and 'I C' (for the artists). In the background (left) is the corner of a house inscribed 'Young Ladies Genteely Boarded & Educated' by A Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from manuscript date added in contemporary hand in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with artist's and printmaker's names partially erased from plate, and without imprint. Cf .No. 8749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Companion print to: Young Gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boarding schools, Dogs, Girls, Jewelry, Older people, and Women
In Smyrna with a city in the distance, a group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figure labelled '1' is identified in the text as 'one of the Chief Woman in Smyrna'' and '7' is her daughter; both wear Turkish headdresses. The country girl (3) wears the costume of Scio, and the woman (4) wears a typical dress from Constantinople. See v. 1, p. 159-60.
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "Tom. 1, No. XIII."--Upper right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
In Smyrna with a city in the distance, a group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figure labelled '1' is identified in the text as 'one of the Chief Woman in Smyrna'' and '7' is her daughter; both wear Turkish headdresses. The country girl (3) wears the costume of Scio, and the woman (4) wears a typical dress from Constantinople. See v. 1, p. 159-60.
Description:
Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "T. 1."--Upper left corner., "XI."--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 4 in volume 1.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 January 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (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., Mounted on page 27 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.6 x 27.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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.
