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C1792
Smoking Club.
Artist:
Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811)
A scene of four seated gentleman smoking pipes. Smoking clubs and smoking schools appeared in England and France in the late sixteenth and seventeeth century from tobacco source from the West Indies.
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Full Title:
Smoking Club.
Date:
C1792
Artist:
Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811)
Engraver:
Thomas Rowlandson
(1756 –
1827)
Condition:
Colour smudges and general soiling in margins.
Technique:
Original etching with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
240mm
x 160mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1792
Description:
A scene of four seated gentleman smoking pipes.
Smoking clubs and smoking schools appeared in England and France in the late sixteenth and seventeeth century from tobacco source from the West Indies.
Biography:
Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811)
Bunbury was an English caricaturist. The second son of Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet (see Bunbury baronets), of Mildenhall, Suffolk, he came of an old Norman family. He was educated at Westminster School and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and soon showed a talent for drawing, especially for humorous subjects.His caricatures are as famous as those of his contemporaries Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray, good examples being his Country Club (1788), Barber’s Shop (1803) and A Long Story (1782). He was a popular character, and the friend of most of the notabilities of his day, whom he never offended by attempting political satire; his easy circumstances and social position (he was colonel of the West Suffolk Militia, and was appointed equerry to the Duke of York and Albany in 1787) allowed him leisure to practise his talents.
His son Henry succeeded to the baronetcy.
