Patience in a punt – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Patience in a punt, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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*Patience in a punt* is a 1792 stipple engraving by W. Dickinson, made after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, and its title points to the joke: a man sitting still in a small flat-bottomed boat, waiting for a bite that may never come. Bunbury was a well-known English caricaturist whose comic drawings of everyday pleasures and foibles were widely reproduced in the late eighteenth century. Stipple engraving, which builds tone from dots rather than lines, gave such prints a soft, painterly finish. The record files the print under cartoons, boats and fishing.
| Created / published | 1792 May 1. |
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| Medium | 1 print : stipple engraving. |
| Notes | Stipple engraving by W. Dickinson after drawing by H. Bunbury. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons; Boats; Fishing; Pub. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157394 |
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