[Unidentified portrait] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Unidentified portrait] [graphic]
Creator: Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created: publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.5 x 15.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]

Genre: Caricatures
Amateur works
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Drypoints England London 1772
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Wigs
Daggers & swords
Subjects: Wigs
Daggers & swords
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
Waldie, John, 1781-1865? > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership