An Oyster Man at Cambridge, called Old Coe
Printmaker: Holland, John (of Peterhouse)
Etching on paper. Head and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man, facing the viewer, with natural, wavy, shoulder-length hair, wearing a coat with collar open to the neck and neck-tie. Signed and dated on the plate at centre left with scratched letters: 'JH f / 1755'. The sheet is cut to the platemark and laid down on a secondary support of laid paper, which is inscribed in pen and ink and underlined at lower centre: '1755. / AN OYSTER MAN AT CAMBRIDGE, CALLED OLD COE. / ETCHING BY MR JOHN HOLLAND OF PETERHOUSE'. Inscribed in a curator's hand, seen elsewhere on the verso of the artist's board onto which many of the 'Cambridge Amateur' prints are laid down, apparently a transcription of the verso of the print: 'This man was many years _an / Oyster Man at Cambridge_; where / he used to attend at Queen's, Benet, / & Peter House - I knew him personally / at the last College (where he was call'd / Old* Coe) from the year _1755_ till I left / the University - this _etching_ was done / by Mr John Holland of Peter-House / & is very like the man --- J.B. / *or Cole / His real name was _Hughes_ / (in pencil later)'.
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by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1755
Height 115mm (cut to platemark) x width 95mm (cut to platemark)
Accession number: P.14845-R
Primary reference Number: 225454
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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