"An etching, representing an elderly man standing upright, turned in three-quarters view to our right, with his hands joined behind him. In the breast of his coat many books are "stuffed"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title supplied from the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from contemporary manuscript note: Publish'd Febry. 29, 1774., A date of 1769 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quote below image: Cleanse thy stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff (Shakes. Mack.)., Two lines of description below quote: Taken from the life Jany 1769 & now by desire of several of his old customers dedicated to [the] pious & decent memory of Mr. Wm. Lynch., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, line 44 -- William Lynch, publisher, d. 1770? -- Booksellers., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand at bottom of plate: Publish'd Fbr. 29, 1774.
