Half-length portrait of engraver William Bawtree, facing left, at the age of 80.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist and engraved not identified., Date based on manuscript mounted opposite, written by his great-great-grandson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 1 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.
