William Gordon, butler at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1778
Printmaker: Unknown
Etching on laid paper. Head and shoulders of a middle-aged gentleman with a large, warty nose and sour expression, head turned in three-quarter-profile to the right and looking upwards. He wears a wig, overcoat and neck-band and a long cane rests against his right shoulder. An initial 'H' etched onto the plate at lower left. On the plate below, a Latin inscription in scratched letters strengthened with brown ink: 'Ecce minister ego _Bacchi_, custosq sacelli, / Indicat officum candida virga meum. / Multa Magistro eqidem merui, multumq, Decdno ['cdno' written in brown ink only] / Sedulitate, Fide, relligione, mero: / c--y [written in brown ink only]'. Written in brown ink in the upper margin: 'William Gordon / Butler at Trinity College Cambridge. 1778'.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1778
Height 105mm (plate) x width 85mm (plate)
Accession number: P.14877-R
Primary reference Number: 225487
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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