William Williams
active 1758-1794
However this rum phiz may strike ye ...
Published
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [1760?]
etching & engraving
image: 118 x 91 mm; plate mark: 158 x 110 mm; sheet: 186 x 150 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2398
Notes
Printmaker from BM Satires and O'Donoghue.
Subject and publication date from BM Satires.
Subject identified by O'Donoghue as Wormald, Johnny (of Halifax).
Seven lines of engraved verse beneath image: However this rum Phiz may strike ye ... But Curse that rueful length of Chin / Why did the Graver put it in; signed "Friblerus".
"Price 4d." at head of image.
Another recorded copy of this print in the holdings of the Lewis Walpole Library bears an inscription on verso in a contemporary hand: Jemmy Worrall a natural of Hallifax in Yorkshire alive in 1771. Cf. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10714734
Subject and publication date from BM Satires.
Subject identified by O'Donoghue as Wormald, Johnny (of Halifax).
Seven lines of engraved verse beneath image: However this rum Phiz may strike ye ... But Curse that rueful length of Chin / Why did the Graver put it in; signed "Friblerus".
"Price 4d." at head of image.
Another recorded copy of this print in the holdings of the Lewis Walpole Library bears an inscription on verso in a contemporary hand: Jemmy Worrall a natural of Hallifax in Yorkshire alive in 1771. Cf. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10714734
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Caricature portrait of Johnny Worrall (also known as John Wormald), half-length, with a cocked hat under his arm; his chin is particularly long. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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