Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Library owns a related letter (PML 146390.53) from Nathaniel Clayton to David Langton, offering him the loan of this portrait drawing.
Signed in ink at lower right: Josh. Slater 1830; in pencil at foot of sheet bordering drawing: Nathl. Clayton Esq.
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Nathaniel Clayton, facing slightly left, wearing a cravat and high-collared coat.