PRINT. Dr. Tom Bentley. Original Print After Ghezzi (probably 1739)

Original soft-ground etching with title. Plate size, approx. 13 1/4″ x 8 3/4″ (34 cm x 22.2 cm) plus margins. Caricature of Dr. Tom Bentley, originally sketched by Ghezzi. Light foxing to margins and image background, and crease on right margin, faintly penetrating into plate (about 1 1/2″); drawing otherwise clean. Pond was an 18th c. engraver, especially noted for his portraits and engravings after Italian old masters, including a series of caricatures of which this is one.