[John Milton] [graphic]Harding, E. (Edward), 1755-1840, printmaker[approximately 1796]eng"Portrait of the dramatist Sir William Killigrew; three-quarter length, standing, to the right, right hand under robe; with shoulder length hair, moustache, and short pointed beard; a column and tree in background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later stateTitle from later state.Proof before title; for a later state with title and additional lettering below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1908,0810.6.Publication information from imprint on later state: Published Decr. 1, 1796, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.Proof state of a plate for: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?].Engraved after a copy of the painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Little Library of the Cottage at Strawberry Hill, which Horace Walpole believed to be a portrait of John Milton.Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge.Mounted on page 201 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.Annotated in pencil with the title "John Milton" below image and with the name "Mr. Bawtree" in lower right corner.