print
- Museum number
- 1906,0419.117
- Title
- Object: From a Sketch taken at Portsmouth by W. H. Bunbury Esqr.
- Description
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A group of sailors at rest, one leaning against a boat at left with a tankard in his hand, opposite him three of his companions are grouped around a barrel while another is in an embrace with a woman on a sack in the foreground, a figure behind him looking solemnly out to the front, the masts of a ship over a wall behind, another figure beyond tugging a rope; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered. 1785
Stipple and etching
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 425 millimetres
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Width: 375 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1878,0511.830 for a later state
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- The prints were selected from a 'fine and extensive collection' in the hands of Messrs Rimell in order to fill gaps in the BM collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1906,0419.117
