Francis Grose (1731-1791), Antiquarian and Watercolourist

John Doyle , Irish, 1797-1868

Title

Datec.1820

MediumEtching

Dimensions

Plate: 19.2 x 11 cm

Sheet: 28.4 x 20.4 cm

Credit LineBequeathed, Miss E. Hone, 1912

Object numberNGI.11158

DescriptionFrancis Grose, (1731-1791), antiquarian and watercolourist. This cartoon by John Doyle is accompanied by lines from a humorous verse by Robert Burns 'On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland':
Inscriptionlower centre (under image, lettered): Frs Grose / [twelve lines of verse] / Burns