Recitator acerbus

In manuscript is written, next to title, "Kent. Poet Bryan of Bury St. Edmunds". In the British Museum copy, a manuscript note identifies Kent as the artist and Bryan as the subject of the caricature. Attribution is based on these notes.
See also Peel 0277 and British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, no. 2457.
See also Peel 0277, Peel 0279 and Peel 0280, and British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, no. 2457.