Caption:
Portrait of William Dobson, 1611-1646, history painter and portraitist, one of the first significant English painters. Tinted etching within a decorative border by John Girtin after a self-portrait by Dobson (in Self-Portrait with Nicholas Lanier and Sir Charles Cotterell) from John Girtins Seventy-Five Portraits of Celebrated Painters from Authentic Originals, J. MCreery, London, 1817.