Unidentified portrait

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Hannah Humphrey
Unidentified portrait
etching, hand colored
plate mark: 129 x 83 mm; sheet: 143 x 100 mm
Peel 2425
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title supplied by cataloger.

Summary: 

Sketch of an old man seated, turned three-quarters to the right. In his right hand he holds a candle-stick in which is a lighted candle; in his left what may be a print. He is drawn as far as the waist, below which his crossed legs from the knee downwards are sketched. He wears a cocked hat, the points over the ears, spectacles, and a plain coat buttoned to the chin. On a small round table (right) are tea-things.

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