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[A Postillion (g)]
Mr.Bunbury del. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd 10th Jan. 1774.
Etching, 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
A coachman holding his whip. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4747; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1075] £95.00
Publish'd 10th Jan. 1774.
Etching, 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
A coachman holding his whip. Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton).
BM Satire 4747; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 1075] £95.00