IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225455 accession number: P.14846-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching, stipple and drypoint on laid paper. A working proof. Half-length portrait of poet, Thomas Gray (1716-1771), in profile facing left, wearing a plain open coat, jacket, cravat, high collar and a buckled wig with wrapped queue. Inscribed in graphite at lower centre: 'William Henshaw, engraver'. The print has been trimmed to the platemark and is laid down on a slightly larger sheet of paper. This working proof is similar in pose (and reversed) but differs in detail from the known portrait by Henshaw after Mason; Cf. BM: 1867,0309.833. The nose and mouth especially, are noticeably different. See Notes. A biographical note (author unknown) written in pen and ink and pasted to a book label laid down on the artist's board below the print: 'Mr. William Henshaw, Son of a Gunsmith at / Cambridge. He engraved a Head of Mr Gray from a / Drawing by Mr. Mason, and which, I think, is the / best likeness of him. Mr Horace Walpole patronised / this promising Genius, and placed him with Bartolozzi / in London, where he died about 1775.'. Inscribed in graphite on the same label: '1x-8'. 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/225455 TECHNIQUES ---------- drypoint TECHNIQUES ---------- stipple TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Henshaw, William maker: Mason, Rev. William