Watercolor of two women fishing while a sitting man looks on
- Title: The angling party
- Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published: England, 1780s
Drawings B87 no. 34 Box D300
Acquired September 2024
The angling party
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Tag Archives: Fishing
A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail
A caricature of George IV fishing on Virginia Water, using his scepter as a rod, watched by a kingfisher and a wagtail. On the end of his line is a frog, which is being netted by Lady Conyngham, his mistress.
- Title: A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail [graphic].
- Publication: [London] : Pubd. Jul. 13, 1826, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, [13 July 1826]
836.07.13.01+
Acquired September 2023
A sharp bite
Three gentleman sit in a row boat fishing. As the man on the right tumbles off his chair into the river as waves hit their small boat, he accidently hooks his companion in the nose. A third man (left) looks on in horror as the man in the middle cries out in pain. Their dog has also fallen in the river from where he looks on the scene.
- Title: A sharp bite [graphic].
- Publication: London : Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1824?]
824.00.00.12 Impression 2
Acquired July 2020
Taking a fly
A scene beside a river: In the foreground two men who had been fishing have been pulled into the river by the rope attached to a ferry that is crossing to the other side when the horse that is pulling it bolts down stream. A third man is about to fall into the water as well as a fourth companion chases the runaway horse and his owner.
- Title: Taking a fly [graphic].
- Publication: London : Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1824?]
824.00.00.11 Impression 2
Acquired July 2020
Album of drawings of Bletchingley, 1828-1829
An album of amateur drawings, with scenes in Kent, East Sussex, Hertfordshire and Surrey. The artist, only identified with the initials ‘S.G.L.’, provides titles and dates for the majority of the drawings. The first group (thirteen in all) dated 1828 are views in Kent, Sussex, and Hertfordshire, including Leeds Castle, Hythe, Sandgate, Rye, Pevensey Castle, Tunbridge Wells, St. Albans, and Hatfield. The second, larger group of drawings are scenes in and round the village of Bletchingley (sometimes Bletchingly) in Surrey, depicting village life.
- Artist: L., S. G., artist.
- Title: [Album of drawings of Bletchingley, 1828-1829] [art original] / S.G.L.
- Production: [England], 1828-1829.
Folio 64 Su7 828
Acquired December 2019
Grinning at a gudgeon
An angler sitting on the branch of a tree overhanging a river in the rain, open umbrella over his shoulder, peering at a shoal of gudgeon grinning at him just out of reach of his hook.
- Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
- Title: Grinning at a gudgeon [graphic] / C.J. Grant invent & fecit.
- Published: [London] : Pub. for the proprietor by M. Clark, Castle Court, Augt. 19th, 1831
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
831.08.19.01
Acquired September 2014