Simon Earl Harcourt : from an original picture by B. Wilson in the possession of William Fauquier EsqrMcArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker[between 1740 and 1765]eng"Portrait, standing three-quarter length facing front, left hand on hip, holding architectural plan at his side in right, looking away to left, towards a window from which the light streams diagonally."--British Museum online catalogueTitle engraved below image.State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1850,1214.106.Probably published in London, the city to which printmaker James McArdell immigrated in 1746; see British Museum online catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.