Invicti Imperatoris Brashyeri vera effigies ('True likeness of the undefeated Emperor Braysher')
Printmaker:
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby
Publisher:
Marshall, John junior
Stipple and etching on paper. An elderly male figure seen full-length in profile facing left, bending forwards slightly. He clasps his hands together in front of him and wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with front brim upturned, a long coat with brass buttons and shoes with buckles. There is a hole in his coat at the right elbow. He carries a large bundle under his right arm. Within a rectangular border. Engraved on the plate wtihin the image border at lower left: 'JKB. sculp.t'. Engraved on the plate in the lower margin: 'Invicti Imperatoris Brashyeri vera effigies. / Drawn from the Life and Pub.d May 31st 1791, by J. Marshall Jun.r Cambridge: for the benefit of the distressed Original.'. Graphite inscription at lower centre: 'Blind Porter at Cambridge'. Emperor Braysher was a Cambridge porter who was entirely blind. Written in graphite, later unknown hand, on the artist's board below: 'J. Marshall jun.r del.' (this misleading, as J. Marshall apparently only the publisher and this recorded as the case in O'Donoghue); 'Emperor Brashyer / Blind Porter at Cambridge'; 'J.K.B. sc.'.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1791-05-31
Height 226mm (cut within platemark) x width 165mm (cut within platemark)
Accession number: P.14868-R
Primary reference Number: 225478
O'Donoghue: 1
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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