[Engraved by Richard Houston after Prince Rupert.]
[c.1755.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to platemark, small hole top centre.
Houston's copy of one of the most celebrated of all mezzotints, Prince Rupert's study of the executioner's head from a painting of the executioner with the head of John the Baptist, attributed to a follower of Ribera, in Munich. With Rupert's monogram mezzotinted top right.
[Ref: 3316]  £450.00