IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225463 accession number: P.14854-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Etching in blue ink on paper. A small, square plate. A head and shoulders portrait of the poet, W. Bryan, "Count" Bryan of Bury St. Edmunds, after a drawing (in reverse) by William Kent. Signed on the plate at lower left: 'C # F.' Inscriptions in pen and ink in the same hand in the upper and lower margins: 'Mr. Bryan of Bury. 1740.'; 'Chr Sharp de Camb / fecit 1768[struckthrough] 1769.'. Bryan was a regular contributor to _The Gentleman's Magazine_ between 1731 and 1748. See Notes. See also P.14853-R and especially P.14855-R. 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/225463 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Sharp, Christopher maker: Kent, William