A stout woman in a floral print dress and cap stands with her back to the viewer looking at her reflection in the mirror. Two portraits of women hang on the wall on either side of the mirror, beneath which stands a marble topped console table
Description:
Title from item., Signed by engraver in lower left of image: HI, [i.e. Hen. Ibb.?], MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., Trimmed within plate mark., and Inlaid to 39 x 27 cm.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
