A Copper Countenance, Selling by Private Contract, The Property of a Noble Lord Out of Office Having No Further Use for It...
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 1/4in. (19.7 x 15.9cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "This Countenance is always the same let your deeds be ever so Black."; upper right: "Its such Base Metal its only fit to make Half pence on't."; upper left: "he'll come North about you if you don't mind Mordica"; lettered below image, lower center: "A Copper Countenance, Selling by Private Contract. The property of a Noble Lord out of office, | having no further use for it..."; lower right:"Pubd. April 10th, 1789. by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection