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- Creator:
- Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1762]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 64K(c) Box 105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper, with the word "Thesaurus" written on the top. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
- Alternative Title:
- Thomas Morell
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., and This state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762.
- Publisher:
- J. Pote and T. Pote
- Subject (Name):
- Morell, Thomas, 1703-1784,
- Subject (Topic):
- Clocks & watches, Organs, Scholars, and Writing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > T. Morell, S.T.P-S.S.A [graphic]