A Mendicant
John K. Baldrey, English, 1750 - 1821
after Henry William Bunbury, English, 1750 - 1811
1794
Engraving on wove paper
Sheet: 19 × 12 in. (48.3 × 30.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.213
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t; lower right: K. Baldrey Sculp.t; lower center: A MENDICANT./It was one of those Heads which Guido has often painted. Mild, Pale, Penetrating, free from all common place Ideas of fat/contented Ignorance, looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this World./Vide Sterns/Published March 8th 1794 by S. W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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