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Benjamin B.
etching
plate mark: 155 x 97 mm; sheet: 168 x 111 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2399
Published:
[London] : Pubd. March 20 by H. Humphrey, Old Bond St., [1780?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Dated "1790" in pencil at lower right.
Notes:
Printmaker and sitter identified by BM Satires.
Year of publication from BM Satires.
Summary:
Half length portrait of an elderly clergyman in profile to the right with a long sharp nose and receding chin. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
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