Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 135. 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. ... 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 of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from statements of responsibility on later state: T.O. invt. & delt. ; Js. Bretherton f. 3d Jany. 1778., Proof before letters. For a later state with lettering, see no. 5510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of: Bunbury album.
"Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his (right) wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elderly man with peg leg and cane
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower left portion of design, possibly an additional publication line "Pubd. by Dighton", has been obscured with etched lines., Leaf 7 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Pencil annotation in lower left corner of sheet is mostly trimmed away.
"Brook Watson (1735-1807) walks in profile to the right, using a sturdy tasselled cane; his right hand is in his coat-pocket. He is well preserved; a slight stoop suggests hurried walking (on his (right) wooden leg) rather than age. He wears a round hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, and breeches; a small pigtail and a spatterdash suggest a quasi-military career."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elderly man with peg leg and cane
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower left portion of design, possibly an additional publication line "Pubd. by Dighton", has been obscured with etched lines., and Ms. note in contemporary hand below design.
Title from item., Numbered '299' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Billair, Captain.
"An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashioned coat buttoned to the neck. An outline sketch."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Older men -- Walking staves., and Watermark (partial): I Ville...
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 15, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashioned coat buttoned to the neck. An outline sketch."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with original imprint burnished from plate. See no. 7970 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Place and date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Aug. 15, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street., and Watermark.
"Portraits, full-length: Dr. Glen on the left talking to Robertson, who stands opposite, his hat in his right hand and a staff topped with two heads."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Dr. Glen & Laird Robertson
Description:
Title from volume in which the print was issued., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 1., Plate numbered "9" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Idiocy.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Glen, Dr., -1786 and Robertson, James, -1790
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill persons, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d Jany. 1783
Call Number:
783.01.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the left holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm. Identified in pencil beneath the plate as "D. Portland."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, and Watermark: T W 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the right holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date conjectured and subject identified from a similar print by James Bretherton., Reduced and reversed copy of a similar print by James Bretherton., and In mirror-image micro-writing in lower left of image: "My Lord."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
