Volume 1, page 26. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting to left, singing from the book of music she holds in her hand, turned slightly away from the viewer and dressed in volumptuous skirts and a turban; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably engraved by John Raphael Smith; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.533., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Sir William Jones's poem 'The palace of fortune, an Indian tale'., Two lines of verse below title: Through the calm air, the melting numbers float, and wanton echo lengthens every note., Temporary local subject terms: Music., and Mounted on page 26 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 20, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of six details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. "Scale of vociferation"; 2, 3. A cleric with a distraught man in prayer; 4. A Jew with a beard before an altar with a Bible and a knife with 'Bloody' written on the blade; 5. A man with clasped hands singing, looking heavenward; 6. A man with a cap, shouting
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Churches, Clegy, Praying, Scales, Singing, and Thermometers
"Young woman holding music score and singing with her young brother on left, two other women playing lute and singing on right, dog asleep in the foreground, landscape seen through arch in the background, within roundel; after Henry Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Young musicians
Description:
Title from later state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on later state: H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; engraved by F. Bartolozzi., "Proof with publication details only"--British Museum online catalogue., For a later state with title, statements of responsibility, verses, and dedication added below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.949., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1874,0711.776., and Mounted on page 41 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
