"Four men, much caricatured, fish from a punt which is anchored to a pole. One sleeps, another has hooked a giant frog, which a third is about to scoop up in a landing-net. The fourth registers excitement. In the punt is a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Bonvallet, L. (Louis), approximately 1748-1818, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1785]
Call Number:
785.01.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in rural France: A farmer holding onto a plow drawn by a team of oxen, shepherds with their sheep, and a man fishing in a stream, all look up in astonishment at the air balloon overhead. This print references the third flight of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, his second with American John Jeffries and the first flight over the English Channel
Alternative Title:
Premier passager aerien de la mer and Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, pensioné du roi, citoyen de Calais
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched above title: Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, Pensioné de Roi, Citoyen de Calais., "Avec Privilege du Roi"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Six lines of verse, signed "Basset" at the end, in two columns below title: Le Pécheur qui sur l'eau tenait son bras tendu ...
Publisher:
Chez Basset rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809. and Jeffries, John, 1745-1819.
In the upper half of the poster, a colorful fish swims in blue water, holding a gleaming gold ring in its mouth to present it to the small fisherman in a boat holding a net on the right. In the bottom half of the poster, the fish floats belly-up in murky water under a dark sky, holding a round object in its mouth inscribed "chemie" (chemistry).
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from beginnings of anti-pollution activism., Place of publication derived from language of text., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Condition: Excellent
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fairy tales, Pollution, Water, Fish, Rings, and Fishermen
Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of drawing; final digits of date are mostly illegible, but a similar drawing by Owen in the same volume is clearly dated "1822"., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of drawing., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
"Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a paper, 'Recepisse' (see BMSat 8849), and clenches his fist, furious at receiving a receipt instead of cash. The other, in back view, has taken a handful of turnips, the old woman looks at him with a hungry, puzzled stare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "7" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: provisions committee -- Dutchmen -- Male dress: sabots., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
A figure of a fisherman constructed from the tools and equipment of the trade: Fishing pool, nets, baskets, pails, hooks, and a fish as his nose
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Statement following artist signature: Chez Bénard, Galerie Vivienne.
Publisher:
Chez Bénard, Galerie Vivienne, 49 and Lith. Senefelder
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Occupations, and Fishermen
Volume 2, page 93. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 93 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Horses, Baskets, Fishermen, Fish, and Dogs
