Pre-face to Bellendenus [print] / J. Sayers, fect.

Accession number: 
PML 146857.87
Author: 
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published: 
[London?] : Publd. by Thos. Cornell, 27th Decr. 1787.
Description: 
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 174 x 132 mm; sheet: 206 x 170 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Etched beneath title: "Fore tamen optandum est ut ad ultionem potius quam defensionem composita fiat tabula, Vide Prœf. fo. xxxvii."
Item no. 87 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.

Variant Title: 

Preface to Bellendenus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

In pencil at foot: Dr. Parr.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Half length portrait of Samuel Parr seated full-face behind a table; his right fist rests on a large book, "Bellen[denus]"; in his left hand is the stem of a long pipe which he smokes, scowling. In the smoke are the words "Damn τоν δεινα". Cf. George.

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