A man, possibly William Conolly, wearing a frock coat and a wig, holding a tricorn hat under his left arm. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.

  • Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755.
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[between 1700 and 1799]
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32861i
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Description

Designated in various catalogues as a portrait of William Conolly (d. 1760), for reasons presumably provided by Hake, loc. cit. The sitter somewhat resembles the portrait of Ghezzi by Markus Tuscher (Wellcome Library no. 32855i), hence the surmise by Weigel (loc. cit.) that the present print also shows Ghezzi, though it does not have characteristics of a self-portrait. Lord Duncannon (William Ponsonby, 2nd earl of Bessborough), who owned the drawing, arrived in Rome on his Grand Tour in December 1736 and subsequently became a member of the Society of Dilettanti (J. Ingamells, ed., A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, London 1997, p. 781)

Publication/Creation

[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 36.5 x 24.3 cm

Lettering

In the collection of the Rt. Honble. the Lord Duncannon. Cavr. Ghezzi delin. AP

References note

Henry Bromley, A catalogue of engraved British portraits, London 1793, p. 265 ("There is a portrait of his son [i.e. nephew of William Conolly Speaker of the Irish House of Commons] by Pond after Ghezzi. He died in 1754")
R. Weigel, Die Werke der Maler in ihren Handzeichnungen, Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1865, p. 238, no. 2748 ("Stehender Herr mit Hut und Degen gegen rechts gewendet, angeblich der Meister selbst. Feder. In the Coll. of Lord Duncannon. A. Pond sc. H. 13" 6", Br. 8" 11". Pond, Caricatures.")
Henry M. Hake "Pond and Knapton's Imitations of Drawings." Print Collector's Quarterly. vol. 9, no. 4, December 1922, cat. no. 81, p. 347

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Wellcome Collection 32861i

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