An impoverished-looking man, with a sword, out-at-elbows, and a hole in the bag of his wig, is walking away from the viewer looking backwards at him. He holds a 'Map of Peru' in his right hand and a book, his tricorne and an umbrella under his left arm. A rolled up sheet of paper protrudes from the right pocket of his coat
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 28, 1772, by Picot, St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Text at top of image: "pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus" and "ob. 1667, aet. 49.", Date and place of publication surmised from data on similar print from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,59.4., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
"Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ben Jonson
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 28 (leaf numbered '86' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
