HENRY BUNBURY/MATTHEW & MARY DARLY - ENGRAVINGS - 1771

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Five copper-engraved prints from 24 Caricatures by Several Ladies, Gentlemen, Artists, &c. , engraved and published by MATTHEW AND MARY DARLY, 1771, and including several of HENRY BUNBURY'S very first published images. Sheet size ca. 15.5 x 25 cm; plate mark size ca. 11 x 16 cm. Occasional light off-setting, two small, tidy pinholes in the top margins; otherwise very clean and fresh, except as noted.Aminadab. Caricature of a loudly declaiming man, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Probably the portrait of a dissenting preacher. Paper imperfection in the right margin. Plate is unsigned, but possibly after Henry Bunbury. BM Satires 4914. French Peasant. A woman with giant clogs holding a fan, a pair of spectacles hanging from her waist. Signed in the plate "HB" (Henry Bunbury). BM Satires 4677. Happy Peasant. A man wearing giant sabots holding a hat and pipe. Stain to lower-right margin. Signed in the plate "HB" (Henry Bunbury). BM Satires 4681. Peasant of the Alps. Unsigned, but probably after Henry Bunbury. BM Satires 4674. Peasant of the Alps. Signed in the plate "HB" (Henry Bunbury). BM Satires 4675. Among their many other accomplishments, the Darlys are credited with discovering HENRY BUNBURY, publishing his very earliest sketches, as here. Bunbury (1750 - 1811) went on to become one of the most popular and respected read more

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