IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225445 accession number: P.14836-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 12 March 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching on chine collé with red wash. Head and shoulders portrait of an elderly gentleman in near profile facing right. He wears a wig, gown and bands. Dr. William Purkis DD FSA was from Wisbech, and a graduate of Magdalene College Cambridge (5th Wrangler, 1756), where, following a period from 1759-1761 as curate of St. George in the East, London, he became fellow and tutor (Senior Proctor 1772-73, doctorate 1786). An inscription on the verso is transcribed in a curatorial hand on the verso of the artist's board onto which the print is laid down: 'Wm Purkis of Magd./ Coll /. Cambridge'. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225445 TECHNIQUES ---------- chine collé TECHNIQUES ---------- wash TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown