Richard Farmer D D Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge

John Jones after George Romney

Richard Farmer D D Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge

London, John Jones, June 14^th 1785

Mezzotint

505 x 350 mm

£180

Portrait almost half-length to right within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing short wig, robes and bands. Richard farmer (1735–1797) was a Shakespearean scholar and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is known for his Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (1767), in which he maintained that Shakespeare’s knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced.