Benjamin B. [graphic].

Description

Title: Benjamin B. [graphic].
Creator: Humphrey, G. (George), 1773?-1831?, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buckler, Benjamin,--1718-1780--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1784] March 20
Copyright Date: [20 March 1780?]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, Old Bond Street
Abstract: "Half length portrait of an elderly clergyman in profile to the right with a long sharp nose and receding chin."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: CtY-LW
Printmaker and questionable year of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Sitter identified as Benjamin Buckler (1718-1780), fellow of All Souls, Oxford, where there is a portrait of him ascribed to Gainsborough. See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18 x 12 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Caricatures.
Etchings--England--London--1780.
Portrait prints--1780.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1780.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Buckler, Benjamin,--1718-1780--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Clergy.

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. 5756