A long story [graphic] / design'd by H.W. Bunbury Esqr.
- Copyright Date:
- [25 April 1782]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.1 x 42.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- "A number of men seated round a circular table over the wine manifesting sleepiness or exhaustion in different ways, while an officer in regimentals harangues them on some campaign. He sits over the table, in profile to the right, gesticulating with outstretched arms over a plan drawn on the table-cloth. Two overturned wine-glasses lie in front of him, two empty bottles stand on the table. On the farther side of the table a man stands up, stretching and yawning violently. His neighbour on his right also yawns; the man on his left supports his head on his hands, scowling at the speaker through half-closed eyes. Next him (right) a man in profile to the left holding a wine-glass yawns widely. Two others in profile to the right are asleep in attitudes of extreme weariness. A very fat man, sitting on the left. I turned away from the table, with outstretched legs in top-boots, yawns violently. From the right enters a servant with tousled hair, wearing a striped jersey; he is bringing in a boot-jack and pair of slippers, he too is yawning violently. In the foreground are two dogs."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Boredom.
Dogs.
Eating & drinking.
Sleeping.
Storytelling.
Yawning. - Topics:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1782. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Call Number:
- 49 3563
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 15377484
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr22017
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6144
- OID:
- 17355480
- PID:
- digcoll:5255580
