Henry William Bunbury Drawing his "Long Minuet" 1789

Thomas Ryder's "Henry William Bunbury Drawing his "Long Minuet"" (1789) is a stipple engraving portrait of Henry William Bunbury, a famous English artist and cartoonist. The image shows Bunbury seated at a table, drawing a "Long Minuet" on a long scroll. It is framed in an oval, and the background depicts a classical landscape. This is a unique portrait, as it captures the artist at work, and provides a glimpse into the creative process of a talented artist. The engraving, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is a fine example of the stipple technique, which uses small dots to create tonal variations and subtle gradations of light and shadow.