[Unidentified portrait] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Unidentified portrait] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Old man with candlestick sitting at a tea table
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Copyright Date: [15 February 1783]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Abstract: An old, toothless man in a simple coat buttoned up to his chin, a cocked hat, and eyeglasses, is [presumably since the chair was not drawn] sitting at a tea table on which are two teacups and saucers and a teapot. He is holding a candlestick in his right hand and a sheet of paper in his left, looking ahead of him to the right.
Description: The number '15' in date in imprint statement is lightly etched and barely visible.
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Extent: 1 print : etching with roulette, hand-colored ; plate mark 13.0 x 8.3 cm, on sheet 14 x 9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1783.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1783.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Candlesticks.
Hats.
Tea.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6312