IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225446 accession number: P.14837-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching and engraving on laid paper. Head and shoulders portrait of an elderly gentleman in near profile facing left. He wears a wig, gown and bands. This is a reversal of the outline of P.14836-R, clearly executed by or after the same printmaker, with more work throughout, but without the colour wash or chine collé, and within a border. The impression is weak. A graphite inscription written within the platemark at lower centre: 'Will.m Purkis of Magd: Coll: Cambr:'. Dr. William Purkis DD FSA (1759-61) was from Wisbech, and a graduate of Magdalen College Cambridge (5th Wrangler 1756), where after his curacy he became fellow and tutor (Senior Proctor 1772-73, doctorate 1786). An inscription on the verso is transcribed in a curatorial hand on the verso of the artist's board onto which the print is laid down: 'Dr Purkis of / Magdalen Coll /. Cambridge'. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225446 TECHNIQUES ---------- engraving TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown