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Patience in a punt / engraved from an original drawing by H.Bunbury Esqr.

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William Dickinson
1746 or 1747-1823

Patience in a punt / engraved from an original drawing by H.Bunbury Esqr.

London : Publish'd May 1st 1792, by W.Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller, No.24. Old Bond Street, [1792]
stipple engraving
image: 252 x 365 mm; trimmed sheet: 302 x 419 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.276
Notes
Probably engraved by W. Dickinson.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third sits in a chair smoking. The standing fisherman, who wears spectacles, has hooked a small dog. Trees form a background; a portion of a sign-board projects into the design from the right inscribed 'The Old...Hot Eel...Every D[ay]', perhaps indicating Eel Pie Island on the Thames.

Associated names
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, designer.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints