A Polite Artist

Matthew Darly

A Polite Artist

London, Matthew Darly, October 18th. 1773

Etching

175 x 125 mm

£85

The Title continues; on St Lukes day, under the patronage of Dr Bardana &c Portrait of a man standing in profile to the left. Under his arm is a large book, ‘Vegetab[le] Syste[m] by D …’ He wears patched old-fashioned clothes and torn stockings, a short wig which fails to conceal his own hair. His hat is under his right arm, a cane under the left. A representation of Sir John Hill