An album of prints with some drawings by Henry William Bunbury, assembled by Horace Walpole (ca. 1776-1782), and mounted with captions by Walpole along with prints etched or engraved after Bunbury designs by: W. Dickinson, F. Bartolozzi, Thomas Watson, J. Bretherton, J. Baldrey, and P.W. White. Includes a series "Hints to bad horsemen" and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds of a young Bunbury engraved by T. Blackmore
Description:
Title vignette., Title from t.p. printed at Strawberry Hill Press by Thomas Kirgate, mounted on p. [1]., and Original marbled boards with calf backs. Bookplate 2 early state. (Later state in the second volume). Press-mark C.19. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. and Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811,
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Animals, Horseback riding, Horses, Jumping (Horsemanship), and Peasants
In a country landscape, a man and a young woman in riding habit ride together (left to right) on a white horse, passing a signpost that reads (left) "To London" and (right) "To Newbury and Well Hall". She sits in front, holding the reins and riding astride. She holds up a purse in her left hand saying, "This will pay you for your Trouble Honey". The man sits behind, his feet in the stirrups, his left hand on the woman's waist; he says, "Promise me that and I will never say another Mass". The man wears ordinary riding-dress; the woman wears a feathered hat over a frilled cap, and a tight coat over a ruffled shirt. Behind them (left) walks a young woman, wearing a cap of lace and ribbons; she holds her apron to her eye, saying, "The Old witch is carrying away my Director". The words issue from the speakers' mouths on long scrolls. In the foreground (left) is a tree; the background is an undulating landscape with a square church tower and the roofs of a village among trees
Alternative Title:
Father D,----------, leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh and Father D leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Attributed to Nixon in the British Museum catalogue., and Place of publication from location of publisher, assumed to be Thomas Cornell of Bruton Street. See I. Maxted's British book trades, 1710-1777.
"A stout lady (left), her hands in a muff, cannonades into a fat parson walking in the opposite direction. Behind (right) a rider urges his horse forward; on the left a pedestrian walks into a pond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '144' in lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Female costume -- Walking staves -- Signposts., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published 22d Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Number four in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., and "No. 4."
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing & hunting gear, Horseback riding, Hunting, and Postal stationery
Leaf 53. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men ride in profile to the right. The one in front is fashionably dressed with a cockaded hat, in his left hand is a cane. The forelegs of the horse are raised as if galloping, but both hind legs are on the ground. The man behind, who is partly cut off by the margin, wears a round cap and is perhaps the servant of the other. His horse appears to be walking. A wall, above which are trees, is indicated behind the riders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Neck or nothing
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., Second of two plates on leaf 53., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Leaf 53. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men ride in profile to the right. The one in front is fashionably dressed with a cockaded hat, in his left hand is a cane. The forelegs of the horse are raised as if galloping, but both hind legs are on the ground. The man behind, who is partly cut off by the margin, wears a round cap and is perhaps the servant of the other. His horse appears to be walking. A wall, above which are trees, is indicated behind the riders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Neck or nothing
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., and Watermark (partially trimmed): Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
A man on horseback struggles to maintain control of his horse as it rears its hind legs, sending a boy scrambling away in the foreground on the right. In the background, another man looks on and grins at the prank he has played with his stick in the horse's tail; he stands in front of a building (an inn?) with a sign hanging above the entrance
Alternative Title:
Boots gets his revenge
Description:
Title from inscription., Attribution to Bunbury from inscription on verso, which notes that the drawing was presented to Lord Harrington., Two line inscription in ink across lower margin: Hard hearted Grower gives poor Boots his due, Or Boots at posting has a Rig for you - Anon., and Probably the original design for a print entitled "Tricks upon travellers," an illustration to Annals of horsemanship (London : W. Dickinson, 1791).
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Kicking, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
"A stout farmer rides (left to right) past an inn on a cow. The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Ho[rses]'. The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn, and snaps his fingers, saying, "Pitt be D------d". A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle. Part of the inn is on the left of the design, its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks, inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' (a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4'). Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue of a print originally published in 1784., Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s. on saddle- and carriage-horses, exempting those used for trade and agriculture. On 27 November 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax. See Chambers, 'Book of Days', ii. 627, where there is a copy of a similar print., and For a variant state, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Volume 2, page 67. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man leans back in the saddle tugging hard at his single rein, his legs thrust forward. The runaway horse is leaping an overturned wheelbarrow belonging to a woman (right) who lies on her back screaming. The fruit from the barrow strews the ground. In the background (right) another rider leans back trying to stop a plunging horse. Trees and a house (right) form a background."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Mounted on page 67 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving with rocker on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
