IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225454 accession number: P.14845-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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)'. 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/225454 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Holland, John (of Peterhouse)