Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: Essays on physiognomy ... / by John Caspar Lavater. London, J. Murrray, 1789-1798, v. i, page 154., Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Walking staves., and Profile portrait of a man's head by Thornthwaite on verso.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Mounted on page 13 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint etched over but visible., Plate numbered "9" in upper left corner., and Ms. identification of the subject in contemporary hand in upper left corner on verso.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., 1 print : etching and drypoint with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 8 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Duke of Grafton.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Printing date of ca. 1806 conjectured from another print (Earl Nugent) in series on similar paper and with dated watermark. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 782.05.14.01.3 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d Jany. 1783
Call Number:
783.01.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the left holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm. Identified in pencil beneath the plate as "D. Portland."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, and Watermark: T W 1795.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809.
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the right holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date conjectured and subject identified from a similar print by James Bretherton., Reduced and reversed copy of a similar print by James Bretherton., and In mirror-image micro-writing in lower left of image: "My Lord."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,