[Unidentified portrait] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Unidentified portrait] [graphic]
Creator: Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Published / Created: publish'd as the act directs 2d March 1772.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Caricature: a stout gentleman standing in profile to right, grinning, right hand behind his back, left tucked into his waistcoat, wearing a sword, frock coat and queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 71 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.5 x 15.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 71. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]