A celebrated connoisseur [graphic].

Description

Title: A celebrated connoisseur [graphic].
Published / Created: [1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A whole-length standing portrait of Dr. Bragge who is pictured as a very fat and round-shouldered man who leans both hands on a walking-stick and wears a loose overcoat and pince-nez. Illustration to a letter describing Dr. Robert Bragge, a collector who "... generally goes by the name of the Connoisseur".
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London, 1768-[1776], v. 8, p. 69.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Periodical illustrations England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777
Subject (Topic): Antiquarians
Collectors
Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Bragge, Robert, Dr. 1700-1777 > Caricatures and cartoons
Antiquarians
Collectors
Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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