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1971-468, Print
A TOUR TO FOREIGN PARTS.
1971-468, Print

A TOUR TO FOREIGN PARTS.

Date1778
Engraver James Bretherton (fl. 1750 - 1799)
After work by Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811)
OriginEngland, London
MediumHand-colored etching with line engraving
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 24in. (48.3 × 61cm) Other (Plate): 16 3/4 × 21in. (42.5 × 53.3cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1971-468
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "A TOUR TO FOREIGN PARTS./ M.r Bunbury del./ J.s Bretherton f./ Publish'd 11.th March, 1778."
Label TextA street is shown and a young English gentleman of grotesque features, dressed in the extreme mode of the time, is standing staring and grinning at a French hotel-keeper who holds out a bill of fare, and welcomes the lad to an inn named "Poste Royale." The hotel-keeper wears enormous sabots on his feet. One of his helpers stands to his side taking one leg out of a huge boot. The other presumably will follow. The Englishman holds a cane in one hand and a volume of "Chesterfield Letters" in the other. Behind him stands the person who has accompanied him to this spot, possibly a tutor. Behind the companion is a servent with a load of books and a driver urging on horses and a coach. Out of the window of the inn, a cook is chasing away three cats with long tails. She has a carving knife in hand. To the rear of the group, another cook is preparing to butcher a cock.