[A country squire] [art original][1740]engTitle devised by curator.Seemingly signed with monogram initials and dated by the artist; the indeterminate signature may be "CAv." or "Av." Attributed to George Vertue in local card catalog record.With three stanzas of a song from Henry Carey's 1735 ballad farce The honest Yorkshireman written below image: Come hither my country squire, take friendly instructions from me ...Mounted on page 75 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.