The mouse's petition [graphic] / H. Bunbury Esqr. delt. ; F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.

Creator:

Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[20 November 1791]

Physical Description:

1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 43.0 x 50.8 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1763787 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2806849

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
CtY-LW
Sixteen lines of verse below image, eight on either side of title: Oh! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer, for liberty that sighs; and never let thine heart be shut against a wretch's cries ... Vide Mrs. Barbauld's poem.

Abstract:

"Dr Priestley sitting at a garden table, looking at a mouse in a semi-circular cage, smiling as he listens to Mrs Barbauld who stands pleading for its release and another woman and Charles Rochemond Aikin, a little boy look on, with trees all around; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Boys.
Cages.
Gardens.
Mice.
Tables.

Topics:

Barbauld,--Mrs.--(Anna Letitia),--1743-1825,--depicted.
Barbauld,--Mrs.--(Anna Letitia),--1743-1825.--Mouse's petition--Illustrations.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Priestley, Joseph,--1733-1804,--depicted.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1791.
Genre prints.
Illustrations.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1791.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings
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.2 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

15522332

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr21947

OID:

17355584

PID:

digcoll:5255694