"Portrait with thick hair, beard and moustache; full-length standing directed to right looking ahead, left foot advanced and a right hand holding a wand, plumed hat in his right hand at his side, wearing a patterned doublet and hose under a knee-length tunic and long cloak, Garter regalia and lace ruff, a sword at his hip; with fringed gloves on a table to right and a curtain above; after Somer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 129 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
