Francis Grose (1731-1791), British antiquarian, reading an inscription on an ancient ruin. He died of apoplexy in Dublin. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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