Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: bishops -- Dancers --Female dress: petticoats -- Female dress: stays -- Tools: measuring stick.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 19th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Barrington, Shute, Bishop of Durham, 1734-1826 and Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809
Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus (sometimes Porteous), Bishop of Chester 1776-1787 and Bishop of London 1787-1809. He and his wife were intimate friends of Hannah More who introduced them to Horace Walpole
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist lower right: J. Downman 1790., John Downman, Britsh artist, 1750-1824., and No. 72 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
