[Half-length portrait of a clergyman] [graphic]

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Title: [Half-length portrait of a clergyman] [graphic]
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created: Novr. 6th 1791.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: Pub. as the act directs
Abstract: A half-length portrait in profile of a clergyman wearing spectacles and a wig. He holds a stack of paper in his right hand, while his left hand is raised with his finger pointing upward
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Sitter tentatively identified as Edward Bearcroft.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Suckling; February 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.7 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 31 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Clergy
Eyeglasses
Lawyers
Wigs
Subjects: Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796 > Portraits
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Clergy
Eyeglasses
Lawyers
Wigs
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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