Mr. Slaughter & Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs [art original] / HB [monogram] fecit.

Creator:

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.

Copyright Date:

[1765?]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pen and ink on brown laid paper ; sheet 62 x 91 mm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1763787 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2806933

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.
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.

Abstract:

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 Titles:

Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap talking of the state affairs

Topics:

Conversation.
Dogs.
Drinking vessels.
Dwellings.
Pipes (Smoking)

Topics:

Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Ink drawings--British--18th century.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1765.

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:

15572685

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22036b

Citation:

Henry William Bunbury, Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Heeltap Talking of the State Affairs. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

17355502

PID:

digcoll:5255600