Hand-colored engraved caricature: Depicting a man with a wooden leg

by Robert Dighton, Jr.

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 vols. 13 x 9-3/4 inches sheet size . Unframed. Light offsetting verso that shows through faintly, else Fine. Contemporary ink inscription: “Brook Watson”. Item #211597 Sir Brook Watson, 1735-1807 , merchant and official, initially went to sea but lost his leg to a shark in Havana. He then served in the army as a commissary and was a member of the original committee of Lloyds in 1772, later serving for ten years as its chairman. He was

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