Bust portrait in profile to the left of an elderly woman, thin and of witch-like appearance. Her hair which recedes from her forehead is dressed high and ornamented with a lace cap
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from later state., Contemporary ms. note identifying the sitter as Lady Mount Edgcumbe on the Lewis Walpole impression. (Call number: 780.00.00.157)., A variant, without imprint. Cf. no. 5749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Sitter identified as "Dowager Ldy Edgcumbe" in contemporary manuscript inscription on verso.
