Solsull, a maker of punches for [the] engravers [graphic]

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Title: Solsull, a maker of punches for [the] engravers [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S. Ireland?
Abstract: "Portrait after a drawing by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a man with a prominent forehead and hooked chin, to left looking down, wearing a wide-brimmed hat set at a tilt and cravat; with another head in profile to left wearing a plumed cocked hat, behind; after plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image, with line break after the word 'engravers',
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.5 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures England London 1781
Etchings England London 1781
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Solsull, engraver.
Subject (Topic): Engravers
British
Subjects: Solsull, engraver
Engravers > British
England > London > 1781
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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