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Beauty and beast
Title
[Beauty and beast] [graphic] / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint.
Publication
[London] : [W. Dickinson], [1 June 1790]
Physical Description
1 print : stipple engraving and engraving ; sheet 32.9 x 27 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Early state, before title and imprint statement added. For a later state with imprint present, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.125.
Publication information from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Summary
"A young woman standing with a basket on her crossed arms, returning the smile of a fat monk at left with a contemptuous expression; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.
Variant and related titles
In-house title: Monk and a young maid
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2020
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1790.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1790.
Engravings - England - London - 1790.
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