"Portrait of Colley Cibber aged 67, after Van Loo, bust-length, turned to the right, with long curly wig, in oval frame with cartouche and laurel wreath at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in bottom portion of image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly the frontispiece to: Cibber, C. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber ... London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., [1756]. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 7 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.