print
- Museum number
- Hh,11.42
- Title
- Object: Cav. Pietro Leone Ghezzi
- Description
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Portrait of Pier Leone Ghezzi, wearing a loose hooded coat and round hat, pointing to left out of a window at a procession of caricatured monks in a churchyard, with his left hand on his hip holding brushes, looking back over his shoulder towards the viewer, a painting of the Virgin on an easel in front of him, the whol in an octagonal frame in imitation of a wash mount; after a selfportrait by Ghezzi; from Tome I of Charles Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings' (London: Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Boydell, 1778). 1762
Etching printed in brown
- Production date
- 1762
- Dimensions
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Height: 356 millimetres
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Width: 274 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the accompanying text, see Vol.1, p.173 of the same publication. For a comment on Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings', see Hh,11.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Prints in Imitation of Drawings
- Acquisition date
- 1778
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by British Museum Trustees in 1778
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,11.42
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1977,U.452 (number on verso of print)
