[Viscount Keppel] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Viscount Keppel] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 July 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published [the] 14th July 1784 by James Bretherton
Abstract: Keppel in admiral's uniform, holding his hat in his right hand, his left hand in his waistcoat-pocket, stands full-length, looking slightly to the left
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 13 cm.
Mounted with three other prints on leaf 9 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Admiral Keppell.
Provenance: Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 23 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic): Military uniforms
British
Subjects: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786 > Caricatures and cartoons
Military uniforms > British
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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