[Richard Thompson] [graphic]Place, Francis, 1647-1728, printmaker[between 1680 and 1690]eng"Portrait of Richard Tompson, half-length in an oval, long hair, wearing neckcloth and robe."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from later state.First state of the plate, before sitter's name added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.175.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Mounted on page 152 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.Sitter's name and occupation written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: Thompson, printseller.