Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.05.15.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To all encouragers of arts and sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ... and Inimitable Mr. James Moss
Description:
Title from dedication etched below image., Title continues: ... is with great respect dedicated by his & their obedient humble servant, H.W.B., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 15th, 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Interior view of the north transept of Westminster Abbey; a group of figures stand with a guide admiring the monuments; a couple stand in left foreground, the man gesturing upwards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 93., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 229.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title devised by curator., Date and attribution to the mason of Westminster Abbey, Thomas Gayfere from Michael McCarthy October 1971., Formerly attributed to Jean-Henri Müntz and formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering and before drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 15 May 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 113. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the dog-dealer James Moss; whole length, walking to left on a road beside a wooden fence, carrying two puppies inside his coat, holding hat in his right hand, the left in his pocket; he appears to be blind or very short-sighted; the towers of Westminster Abbey in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: HWBunbury del. ; J. Bretherton f., Early (proof?) state, before lettering but after drypoint shading added to image. For a later state, published 15 May 1773 by J. Bretherton and bearing the dedication "To all encouragers of arts & sciences this portrait of the inimitable Mr. James Moss ..." below image, see no. 4721 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 287., and Mounted on page 113 of: Bunbury album.
Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
Description:
Titled devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738., and Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Title devised by cataloger., Questionable date assigned by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 41 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
