Ben: Johnson [graphic]Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker1738.eng"Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text in image.Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]."In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made.