[Bargaining] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Bargaining] [graphic].
Creator: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, printmaker
Published / Created: [1770?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Caricature of two men, one on the left turning from his examination of a small object to listen to the other who stands in profile on the right with a tray hanging on a strap in front of him, who gestures as he talks."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Tentatively attributed to Francis Grose in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1925,0511.83.
Contemporary note "by Capt. Grose" written in ink at bottom of sheet.
Date from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 68 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 13.3 x 9.7 cm, on sheet 15.3 x 10.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 68. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]