Antique Master Print-DANCING-BEAR-STREET-SCENE-Knight-Bunbury-1785
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Antique Master Print-DANCING-BEAR-STREET-SCENE-Knight-Bunbury-1785

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€445.00

‘H. BUNBURY ESQR. DELIN. ENGRAVED BY C. KNIGHT. A DANCING BEAR. LONDON, PUBLISH’D JUNE 24TH, 1785 BY W.DICKINSON, ENGRAVER & PRINTSELLER NO.158 BOND STREET & J. JONES, NO. 63 GREAT PORTLAND STREET.’

– Street scene with a dancing bear muzzled and on a chain, led by a showman with a monkey. Piper and crowd watch, with detailed tavern sign ‘The Old King of Bohemia’.

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SKU: PICTURA-11930 Category: Tag:

Description

Medium: Stipple engraving in sepia on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 35.5 x 47.1 cm (13.98 x 18.54 inch). Image size: 35.5 x 47.1 cm. (13.98 x 18.54 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Some paper loss in bottom right corner.Some tiny ters in paper edge. Remains of paper from attachment on rear. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DANCING BEAR, 18TH CENTURY PRINT, STIPPLE ENGRAVING, STREET PERFORMANCE, MONKEY, TAVERN SIGN, W. DICKINSON, J. JONES, C. KNIGHT, HENRY BUNBURY | PCO-B2-34

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by W. Dickinson & J. Jones, London, 1785.

Biography engraver: Charles Knight (1743-c.1826) was a British engraver known for his stipple engravings and collaborations with leading artists of his time.

Biography artist: Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) was a British caricaturist and illustrator renowned for his humorous and satirical drawings, often depicting social life and popular entertainment in 18th-century England.

Additional information

Dimensions 47 × 35 × 1 cm

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