D.r Swift. Cives aliquos virtutibus pares, & habemus & habemimus, gloria neminem. Plin. Epist.
Ravenet sculp. [after Rupert Barber.] [n.d., 1752.] Fine etching with engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper. Oval bust portrait of Jonathan Swift, the frontispiece to the second edition of Lord Orrery's 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift'.
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Dr. Swift.
For the Lond: Mag: Printed for R. Baldwin in Pater Noster Row 1754. Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on left. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) after Richard Barber, shown in an oval, without a wig. An Irish-born writer and dean of St. Patrick's, he is best known for his satirical works, including 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'A Modest Proposal'.
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