Happy Peasant and Monk

1770
Not on view
A French peasant wearing huge wooden clogs smiles as he walks beside a monk. The latter figure, and right half of the image, are left unfinished. The satire was inspired by figures the twenty-year old Bunbury saw in France during a European tour in 1769-70, when he took a break from studies at St. Catharine's College, Oxford.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Happy Peasant and Monk
  • Artist: Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750–1811 Keswick, Cumberland)
  • Date: 1770
  • Medium: Drypoint
  • Dimensions: plate: 5 11/16 x 6 3/8 in. (14.5 x 16.2 cm)
    sheet: 5 7/8 x 6 9/16 in. (15 x 16.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.539.339
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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