Front, Side View, And Back Front, of a Modern fine Gentleman.
Design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r.
[London Publish'd March 24th 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street]
Stipple, sheet 225 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed, losing publication line. Foxing.
Three views of a slim and foppish young man demonstrating the fashion of the day. Caricature by 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' (Tim Clayton).
BM Satires 6342.
[Ref: 41552] £150.00
[London Publish'd March 24th 1783 by J.R. Smith N83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street]
Stipple, sheet 225 x 260mm (8¾ x 10¼"). Trimmed, losing publication line. Foxing.
Three views of a slim and foppish young man demonstrating the fashion of the day. Caricature by 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' (Tim Clayton).
BM Satires 6342.
[Ref: 41552] £150.00