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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 July 1801]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.21.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A soldier with a long stick in his left hand stands in front of wall baiting a muzzled and chained brown bear that stands upright and facing him, paws curled. Off to the right, a second soldier stands behind the first and plays a horn; he also holds a stick in the crock of his left arm. On the far left, a third man, with his back to the viewer, observes the bear, his right arm bent suggesting that he is addressing a comment to the soldier?
- Description:
- Title from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 April 1774. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, partially trimmed: A. Stace 1801.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 21, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Trained animals, Chains, Wind instruments, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dancing bear] [graphic]