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: 22-1/2 x 15-1/8 inches. Blocks, 4: Buff, warm gray, brown, dark brown. Inscription, lower right: "_Per-illustri D.{no} D.{no} / +Joanni Reade+ / Tabellam hanc in ob[s]e-/quenti[s][s]im[ae] reverenti[ae] / specimen D. D. D. / J. B. Jack[s]on / ex Tabella penes / D. Jos{h} Smith._" 1743. 32. _Dives and Lazarus_ (The Rich Man and Lazarus), after Jacopo Bassano Dimensions: 22 x 15 inches (left sheet), 22 x 15 inches (right sheet). Blocks, 4: Buff, light brown, light brownish gray, dark brownish gray. Inscription, lower left of left plate: "_Per-illustri, ac Honorabili Viro_ / D:{no} D:{no} +Roberto Hoblyn+, / _Armigero, Magn[ae]q; Britan-/ni[ae] Consilii Conscripto Patri, / Artium, Scientiarumq; Cultori, / et M[ae]cenati, sui ergo obsequii / dicabat_ / J. B. Jack[s]on." Lower right of left plate: "_Ab Exemplari, Jacobi de Ponte, quod Venetiis penes / D. Jo[s]eph Smith extat, ex[s]crip[s]it qui dicabat. / J: Ba[s]an P{x}._" 1743. 33. _Algernon Sidney_, after Justus Verus [Le Bl. 20] Dimensions: 13-3/8 x 8-3/4 inches with letters, 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches (oval portrait only). Blocks, 4: Tan, light brown, light gray, dark gray. Inscription, left and right under oval: "_Zustus Verus, pinx: J: B: J: sculp; et exc:_" In rectangle at bottom: "_At the Time when_ M{r}. +Algernon Sidney+ _was_ Amba[s][s]ador _at that Court, Mon[s]ieur +Terlon+ the_ French _Amba[s][s]ador, had the Confidence to tear out of the Book of_ Mottos _in the King's Library, this Verse, which_ M{r}. Sidney _(according to the Liberty allowed to all Noble Strangers) had written in it:_/ "Manus haec inimica Tyrannis En[s]e petit placidam sub Libertate quietem. "_Though Mon[s]ieur_ Terlon _under[s]tood not a word of_ Latin, _he was told by others the meaning of that Sen- tence, which he considered as a_ Libel _upon the_ French _Government and upon [s]uch as was then setting up in_ Denmark _by_ French _A[s][s]istance_ or Example." Pref: to _Acco{t}. of Denmark_ 4{th} _Edit:P:23._ Another version with light red in place of light gray (Philadelphia, which also has set of progressive proofs). Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum) Worcester, MFA, Fogg, Baltimore, MMA, NYPL, Philadelphia BM, Berlin-Dahlem, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg 34. _Antique Bust of Woman_ Dimensions: 14-7/8 x 10-1/2 inches
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