"Portrait of Colley Cibber at the age of 67, after Van Loo, almost half-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig; oval frame on plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved at bottom of image., Date of publication from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed by John Watts for the author, MDCCXL [1740]., and Mounted on page 6 (formerly E) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.