Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Courier Anglois.
Call Number
E South 11/GC021/Box 02/Normal/18th c./Artist Bretherton GA 2011.00498
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc00000b78n
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1774/05/03.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1774
Extent
1 item ; sheet 29.6 x 42 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 4736
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Crayon manner prints
Depiction: Caricature; occupation-related scene. Courier riding horse leisurely, right profile; gallows with two corpses in background.
Signed in plate, lower left: "HWBunbury delin.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Js. Bretherton f.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Messengers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Horses—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Gallows—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Animals—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ade537b7-57d1-499d-843b-13c81268f7ea/manifest