Author: After Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811)
Title: [Antique print stipple etching, British] Launce Teaching his Dog (hond) Crab, to Behave as a Dog of All things.
Description: On a street, a man with a walking stick waves his hand at a dog standing at the left. Behind his back two finely dressed young men converse, one gesturing to the right as if suggesting that they should leave. A monk behind them walks to left. In the background a religious building behind a wall. (Two Gentlemen of Verona); after Bunbury. Lettered at the bottom: Launce O, tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies, I would have, as one should say, one that takes upon him to be a Dog indeed, to be as it where, a Dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hang'd for't sure as I live, he had suffer'd for't., with production detail: Henry Bunbury Esqr. del. and publication line: Publish'd Jany. 1st. 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet St.Launce is the charater in The Two Gentlemen of Verone, by William Shakespeare. Crab is the dog. Stipple etching and etching on thick paper, trimmed to plate; total: 417 x 472 mm; some foxing, especially visible on the text area.

Keywords: Animals|Theater