Volume 2, page 87. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman standing to right waving farewell to a figure escorted by two soldiers, in the distance at right, at left the corner of a building and part of a tree trunk with broken branch; oval design, after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: What so tender, at parting, he told me, which such joy, to my bosom convey'd, when next he was doom'd to behold me, cou'd I think of being this way repaid., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., and Mounted on page 87 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Farewells, Soldiers, and Tree trunks
