The connoiseurs [graphic].

Edition:

[State without plate number].

Copyright Date:

[1 September 1771]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm

Notes:

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.

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.

Variant Titles:

Connoisseurs

Topics:

Hand lenses.
Heads (Anatomy)
Sculpture.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.
Grose, Francis,--1731?-1791--Caricatures and cartoons.

Caption:

leaf 16

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1771.
Etchings--England--London--1771.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1771.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

8192560

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37081

OID:

16737535

PID:

digcoll:4711109