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Patience in a punt
Title
Patience in a punt [graphic] / H. Bunbury del.
Publication
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 12.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 43 x 59 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Restrike. For possible original issue of the plate, published in 1811, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 222.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
A reduced copy of no. 8206 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standing fisherman, who wears spectacles, has hooked a small dog.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1811.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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