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10. [A dancing bear] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 July 1801]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description:
- Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print on laid paper : etching and drypoint, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 32 cm., Imperfect; artist and printmaker signatures mostly erased from sheet., Watermark: J. Whatman 179[...?]., and Publisher's stamp (partially trimmed) in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.[F.].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]
11. [A dancing bear] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 1st April 1774.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 87. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description:
- Title from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]
12. [Performing dog and players] [art original]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1765?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four men stand at center, in front of an exterior wall or fence and beside a barrel on the left. One man plays a horn, in response to which a dog on the far right stands on its hind legs
- Description:
- Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed with the artist's initials in lower right portion of image., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Dogs, Wind instruments, and Barrels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Performing dog and players] [art original]
