However this rum phiz may strike ye ...

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William Williams

active 1758-1794

etching & engraving

image: 118 x 91 mm; plate mark: 158 x 110 mm; sheet: 186 x 150 mm

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.

Peel 2398

Published:

[England?] : [publisher not identified], [1760?]

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Notes:

Printmaker from BM Satires and O'Donoghue.
Subject and publication date from BM Satires.
Subject identified by O'Donoghue as Wormald, Johnny (of Halifax).
Seven lines of engraved verse beneath image: However this rum Phiz may strike ye ... But Curse that rueful length of Chin / Why did the Graver put it in; signed "Friblerus".
"Price 4d." at head of image.
Another recorded copy of this print in the holdings of the Lewis Walpole Library bears an inscription on verso in a contemporary hand: Jemmy Worrall a natural of Hallifax in Yorkshire alive in 1771. Cf. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10714734

Summary:

Caricature portrait of Johnny Worrall (also known as John Wormald), half-length, with a cocked hat under his arm; his chin is particularly long. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.

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Century:

18th century

Classification:

Department:

Drawings and Prints