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10. The connoiseurs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.09.01.02.1+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces us wears a brocaded coat, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Bath[?]. The fat man on our right is a portrait of Francis Grose, antiquarian and draughtsman. He holds a magnifying glass in his right hand and what looks like a small carved animal [possibly an armadillo?] in his left hand over the head
- Alternative Title:
- Connoisseurs
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: ... where may be had the greatest variety of comic prints, by several ladies, gentlemen, and the most humourous artists., One line of text below title: The head is undetermined, some taking it for Julius Caesar, some for Holifernes, other for an antideluvian [sic] law giver &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below., and Matted to 49 x 62 c
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
- Subject (Name):
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
- Subject (Topic):
- Sculpture, Heads (Anatomy), and Hand lenses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The connoiseurs [graphic].