"Portrait of Francesco Bartolozzi, bust-length, in an architectural oval, in profile to the left, dressed in a dark frockcoat open over his waistcoat with his neck-cloth tied loosely and his hair fashionably powdered, curled and tied in a queue, a bas-relief below depicting Merit banishing Time with an intaglio engraved with Bartolozzi's monogram, with the Graces, Invention, Painting and a putto using a burin to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
