James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British, Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One, 1774
- Title:
Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One
- Additional Title(s):
Dancing Bear, with its Keeper, Piper & Audience of One
A Dancing Bear
Performing Bear
Dancing Bear with Its Keeper
- Date:
- 1774
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm), Plate: 8 7/16 x 10 9/16 inches (21.4 x 26.8 cm), Image: 7 3/8 x 10 3/16 inches (18.8 x 25.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "44551 (encircled)"; on back, lower right: "I"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Mr. Bunbury del."; lower center: "Publish'd 1st. April 1774."; lower right: "Js. Bretherton f."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11143
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal | audience | bear | breeches (trousers) | chain | coats | costume | entertainer | genre subject | gesture | humor | men | music | muzzle | parody | performance | queue wigs | satire | staff (walking stick) | tamer | taming | tricornes | trumpet | waistcoats | wigs
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:30583
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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