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Mr. Slaughter & Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Title
Mr. Slaughter & Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs [art original] / HB [monogram] fecit.
Production
[England], [1765?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink on brown laid paper ; sheet 62 x 91 mm
Notes
Titled by the artist in ink below image.
Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials.
Date from local card catalog record.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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
Two men stand in the foreground conversing. The man on the left holds a mug out in front of him, while the man on the right smokes a pipe; two dogs playfully run past the men. A house is visible in the background on the right, and the wall of another structure is seen on the far left.
Variant and related titles
Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2020
References
Henry William Bunbury, Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap Talking of the State Affairs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Henry William Bunbury, Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap Talking of the State Affairs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1765.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
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