IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225456 accession number: P.14847-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching on india paper. Proof before letters. Portrait of local Cambridge barrister, Jacob Butler (1681-1765), half-length in profile to the right, with shoulder-length hair and wearing a wide-brimmed tricorn hat pulled down low and Judicial bands. Two books are stacked on a ledge to the right. Within a border. There are etching needle marks on the plate in the upper margin. The india paper is laid down on a sheet of cream, laid paper, which prevents reading of the handwritten inscriptions on the verso. This etching relates in reverse to a pen and ink drawing of Butler by Tyson (see DRAWING). P.14847-R does not reproduce all the details of the drawing, such as the open third book or the disingenous 'Rembrant' signature and date. An impression at the British Museum, 1850,0810.60, bears an inscription indicating that the etching was made by Tyson from a private plate, i.e. not widely published. 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/225456 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1759 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1759 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Tyson, Michael maker: Tyson, Michael