Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
Call Number:
Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably an earlier state of a print in the British Museum with the imprint "Publish'd 11th March 1778." Cf. no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
A French postillion, wearing huge boots, gestures with his arms outspread to the right
Description:
Title and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker from signature on later state: H.B. f., Early state, before background elements, printmaker's signature, and figure's sleeve decoration added in drypoint. For a later state with these additions, see no. 4746 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
"Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip; a progress proof in pure etching before the addition in drypoint of the horse behind to the right."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0309.1663
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Early (proof?) state, before figure's queue added in drypoint and before the addition of background and foreground elements. For a later state with these changes to the plate, see no. 4743 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Coach drivers, and Whips
A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking forward, away from the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Early state, before position of the figure's head altered and before additional shading added to the foreground. For a later state with these changes to the plate, see no. 4745 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Whips, and Coach drivers
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking over his right shoulder towards the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with position of the figure's head altered and with additional shading added to the foreground. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 14.5 x 10.1 cm, on sheet 15.1 x 10.7 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Whips, and Coach drivers
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 115. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A French postillion, whip in hand and wearing huge boots, is seen from behind looking over his right shoulder towards the viewer; a church is visible in the distance
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with position of the figure's head altered and with additional shading added to the foreground. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 B87 770., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below plate mark: Etched by Mr. Bunbury.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, French, Boots, Whips, and Coach drivers
A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postillion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air
Alternative Title:
Changing horses on the road to Paris
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower left., and One of five views by the artist F.G. Byron that record his visit to France in 1790; they were exhibited at the Society of Artists the following year. This drawing was exhibited under the title "Changing horses on the road to Paris" (Society of Artists, 1791, no. 39).
Subject (Geographic):
Clermont (France) and France.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Taverns (Inns), Postillions, French, Peasants, Country life, Ethnic stereotypes, and Drums (Musical instruments)
