A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].

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Title: A connoiseur admiring a dark night peice [graphic].
Alternative Title: Connoisseur admiring a dark night piece
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [12 November 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt., Novr. 12, 1771, by MDarly, No. 39 Strand
Abstract: "A man (Captain Grose) standing peering at a painting through a large magnifying glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4683 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "19" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses -- Framed paintings.
First of three plates on leaf 63.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 16 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.1 x 11 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 16 cm
Edition: [State with plate number and volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 63. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Subject (Topic): Antiquarians
Hand lenses
Paintings
Subjects: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 > Caricatures and cartoons
Antiquarians
Hand lenses
Paintings
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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