"Portrait bust of the Honble Peniston Lambe, turned in profile to left on a ledge, wearing winged helmet of the god, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1917,1208.2897., Mounted on page 262 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Subject (Name):
Lambe, Peniston, 1773-1805, and Mercury (Roman deity)
