Artist: Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811)
Title: La Cuisine de la Poste, 1770
Description: Watercolor

 

When this drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy following Bunbury's return from the Grand Tour in 1770, Walpole noted in his exhibition catalogue, AAll the characters are most highly natural, and this drawing perhaps excels the Gate of Calais by Hogarth, in whose manner it is composed.