Accession number
PML 146857.16
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Published 7th June 1782 by C. Bretherton, [1782]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 16 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 137 x 89 mm; sheet: 206 x 142 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at foot of sheet: Mr. George Onslow.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full length portrait of a booted and spurred George Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, and supporter of the North ministry, facing left, his back to the viewer. In the right foreground stands a spurred game cock, a reference to Onslow's nickname, Little Cocking George.
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