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Michael Tyson
1740-1780
Such Tophet was - so grin'd the bawling fiend
etching with drypoint
plate mark: 225 x 159 mm; sheet: 276 x 202 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2395
Published:
[England] : [Publisher not identified], [1769?].
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Printmaker, artist, and date from British Museum online catalog.
Etched by Michael Tyson after a drawing by William Mason (1725-1797).
Lettered below image with six-line of English verse by Thomas Gray: "Such Tophet was - so grin'd the bawling fiend [...] And Satan's self had thoughts of taking orders."
Summary:
Caricatured portrait of the Revd Henry Etough, Rector of Therfield, Hertfordshire, and Colmworth, Bedfordshire, standing full-length, looking and pointing at left with one hand, a hat in the other.
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