print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12658
- Title
- Object: A portrait.
- Description
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A portrait of George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (see No. 9923), standing in profile to the left, with his left hand in his breeches pocket. He is obese, with powdered hair in a small tail, and a dark whisker. He wears an open double-breasted coat, long breeches with short Hessian boots.
26 February 1812.
Hand-coloured etching.
- Production date
- 1812
- Dimensions
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Height: 256 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
The drawing, probably by an amateur, is in the Print Room (201. c. 6/38).
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 225.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12658
