1592997266000 1536161169000 Standard Record object-225455 1747246127784 1546875784000 1747245848743 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225455 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225455 9bcf0817-d4fb-3629-8f7d-dea8eced01e3 4 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints 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'. P.14846-R 1 accession number P.14846-R 225455 priref 225455 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225455 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225455 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum unknown reference agent-161926 adlib-agent-161926 86919954-05dc-38f8-8246-d58fdb3b58cb unknown 1770 1770 circa 1770 printmaker reference agent-198010 adlib-agent-198010 da249429-cef3-36ca-8179-04c511a0de23 Henshaw, William after draughtsman reference agent-86586 adlib-agent-86586 eae34ef4-640f-3ce2-9cc1-854088075a68 Mason, Rev. William height 140mm (cut to platemark) x width 115mm (cut to platemark) reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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