Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]Pariset, D. P., active 1740-1783, printmaker[between 1768 and 1783]eng"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched in open letters on tablet below image.Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142).Price following imprint: Pr. 2s.Mounted opposite first half-title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.1 x 14.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.