print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8665
- Title
- Object: Buy a bun!
- Description
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Scene in a wooded lane by a milestone: IV Miles From Worthing. Col. Berkeley, in hunting dress, a hunting-crop beside him, sits on a bank eating a bun, and smiling up at a pretty woman (right) with a basket of buns. He asks: What's the price my pretty Dear? She answers, holding out another, Only one half penny to you Kind Sir—Taste & try before you Buy. He says: Upon my honour it is delicious. Oh! ye Gods! I must have another taste. From his pocket hangs a paper: Vagrant Act. Their identities are indicated by a signpost with two arms: To Berkely Square and To Bunhill Row. In the background is the sea. August 1825
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 260 millimetres
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Width: 362 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
Mrs. Bunn (1799-1883) was a pretty actress whose unhappy married life led to scandal; her husband is said to have transferred her to Berkeley for an annuity. Vizetelly, Glances Back, i. 208. For Berkeley see No. 14868, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8665