Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of a large room showing two sash windows, through one of which (left) is seen part of the south side of the Senate House, through the other, the tower of St. Mary's Church, both drawn with topographical accuracy. Between the two windows is a niche in which is a statue of Athene holding her shield; in her outstretched left hand is held out a laurel wreath towards some men beneath her who have entered from a door on the right. Her owl sits beside her on the stump of a tree. Beneath the title is etched, "dedicated to the illustrious Inheritress of her fame in Professors of Arts & Sciences, the University of Cambridge O Matre pulchra Filia pulchrior!" Immediately below Athene, and concealing the lower part of her draperies a man stands on a high rostrum covered with a cloth. He wears a furred academic gown and bands, and holds out a rolled document in his right hand. Immediately below the rostrum a man, not in academic dress, is seated at a table writing. He is in profile to the right looking towards four men who have entered from the right through an open door, apparently 'professors of Arts and Sciences', whose names he is recording. The foremost of these is a dancing-master who stands holding a bow in his right hand, a kit or small fiddle in his left. Next is a rough-looking elderly man wearing a round hat and long coat. The other two are middle-aged, one holding his hat and a cane and accompanied by a dog. On the left, and behind the chair of the man writing, are two other 'professors'; a fencing-master, wearing a fencing-jacket, stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right, his left arm raised, holding his foil horizontally. Behind him stands a thin man wearing a hat, one hand in his waistcoat pocket, the other thrust in his waistcoat."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 137 of: Bunbury album.
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Zacharias writes the name of his son John on a tablet
Description:
Title from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence., From: The Life of John the Baptist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint., Zacharias (Father of John the Baptist)., and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Medicine in the Bible, Postnatal care, Mothers, Saints, Infants, Midwifes, Bathing, Writing, and Cooking
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below the title are engraved four lines from Pope's Dunciad, Book 1, line 3., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145, p. 176., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 175 x 116 mm.
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below the title are engraved four lines from Pope's Dunciad, Book 1, line 3., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145, p. 176.
Copy of a detail from Hogarth's Distressed poet, showing Theobald at his writing desk in his attic room, scratching his head under his wig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Below the title are engraved four lines from Pope's Dunciad, Book 1, line 3., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145, p. 176., and On page 79 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 17.5 x 11.1 cm.
A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper, with the word "Thesaurus" written on the top. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., and This state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762.
A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper, with the word "Thesaurus" written on the top. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., This state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.7 x 15.2 cm, on sheet 22.5 x 16.5 cm.
A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., Sheet irregularly trimmed., State before the word "Thesaurus" written on the top page on which Morell is writing., Final state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nicholls's book, 3d edit. p. 384., Ms. note in ink in James Basire's hand [?] beneath image: For the Revd Michael Lort from his respectfull humble Sert. James Basire., and On page 195 in volume 2.
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 29 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
