Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 17 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving, etching, and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 38.0 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 70 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
An English crown coin; on the left of the design, the obverse of the crowned bust of Edward VI facing right with his titles in Latin around the edge. The reverse, comprising the right half of the design, bears the king's arms and motto "TIMOR DOMINI FONS VITAE MDXLVII,"
Alternative Title:
Remarkable piece of King Edward VI
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., "Dw. 20, gr. 3"--Below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Horace Walpole kept an example of this coin in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 88 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 117 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 41.2 x 56.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
780.02.15.03++
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 19 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching in brown ink on laid paper, with brown and blue-gray wash ; sheet 41.9 x 57.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Volume 2, page 81. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four men smoking long pipes sit stiffly in upright wooden chairs. One (left) in profile to the right, very obese, is an old military officer with a wooden leg; next is a lean man in back view, next a stout man sits full face, and on the right is a thin man in profile to the left seated beside a rectangular table on which is a glass and a large jug. All have expressions of solemn vacuity. They emit clouds of smoke from mouth or pipe which fill the upper part of the bare room. On the wall (right) is a print of Fox, whole length, declaiming with right arm raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 81 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 March 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 56. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against the wall at right, gesturing towards her, another standing directly behind her looks on with concern, a child sitting on the floor beside a large sleeping dog, his eyes raised up; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse, from William Shenstone's ballad 'Jemmy Dawson', engraved below title: Come listen to my mournful tale, ye tender hearts and lovers dear; nor will you scorn to heave a sigh, nor need you blush to shed a tear. Vide Shenston., Dedication engraved above imprint statement: To the Countess Sutherland this plate after an original Drawing by Mr. Bunbury, in her Ladyship's possession, is with the greatest respect dedicated by her Ladyship's most obliged humble servant, James Bretherton., and Mounted on page 56 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published 3 March 1786 by James Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Children, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
Page v. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". Johnson says, "Come Bossy". Behind and below them a loch and mountain (right) are indicated. In the foreground (left) is a huge thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., A companion print to: A tour to the Hebrides., On paper with a watermark (trimmed)., and Tipped in at page v in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Mountains, Climbing, Staffs (Sticks), and Thistles
