album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1859,0806.270
- Description
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Caricature of an abbot with gout (?), seen standing in an interior; full length, walking to left and holding a sheet of paper; drawing from an album
Pen and brown-red ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1752 (4 September)
- Dimensions
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Height: 318 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1859,0806.91 for comment and description of album.
The sitter is not identified. In the inscription Ghezzi states he is an abbot, a vicar and an excellent gentleman.
The caricature seems to indicate the sitter might have suffered from gout.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0806.270