Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.0 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark, and artist's signature has been mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with artist's signature and imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state with "H. Bunbury Esqr. delint." in lower left and "London, Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street" below title, see no. 7231 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... London : J. Stockdale, 1812., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., and Watermark, trimmed.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
