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- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1786]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 786.02.01.02 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "[1] 'H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Punch (left) points to a large butt or tun inscribed 'WYNNSTAY', from the top of which hang comic masks which encircle its upper circumference; in his right hand is a stick with an ass's head. On the right side of the butt are three figures: Mother Shipton, humpbacked with a profile like Punch's; a demon or satyr, who looks from behind the cask; and a small man or boy, perhaps Tom Thumb. [2] 'View of the Theatre at Wynnstay. I. Evans Esqr del.' A view of the theatre is framed by a curtain held up (left) by Comedy and right by Tragedy. The façade has the date '1782'. [3] 'Wynnstay. H. Bunbury Esqr del.' Amateur actors and actresses dance in a circle round a high pedestal supporting a bust of (?) Shakespeare. They include a Falstaff leering at a lady in Elizabethan dress, a man wearing a tall leek in his hat (? Fluellen), and a French military officer with long queue and cavalier's boots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text above images., Three designs arranged in a vertical strip, each with its own title and artist's signature., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Plate from: The European magazine, and London Review, v. 9 (February 1786), page 71., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Theatre at Wynnstay., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 25.8 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of title.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Feby. 1, 1786, by I. Sewell, Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Shipton, Mother approximately 1488-1561 (Ursula), and Wynnstay Theatre,
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater, Masks, Barrels, Demons, Theaters, and Pedestals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Three tickets of admission to Sir W.W. Wynne's theatre at Wynnstay [graphic].