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Dr. Swift [print] / B. Wilson fecit.

BIB_ID
290922
Accession number
MA 457.30
Creator
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788, etcher.
Published
1751.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1907.
Description
1 print : etching ; 204 x 124 mm
Notes
Includes a quotation from Pliny's Epistulae.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Probably after a portrait by Rupert Barber now held by Trinity College, Dublin.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Irish satirist and divine Jonathan Swift, facing right.
Classification