A man, possibly William Conolly, wearing a frock coat and a wig, holding a tricorn hat under his left arm. Etching by Arthur Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.

Designated in various catalogues as a portrait of William Conolly (d. 1760), for reasons presumably provided by Hake, loc. cit. The sitter somewhat resembles the portrait of Ghezzi by Markus Tuscher (Wellcome Library no. 32855i), hence the surmise by Weigel (loc. cit.) that the present print also shows Ghezzi, though it does not have characteristics of a self-portrait. Lord Duncannon (William Ponsonby, 2nd earl of Bessborough), who owned the drawing, arrived in Rome on his Grand Tour in December 1736 and subsequently became a member of the Society of Dilettanti (J. Ingamells, ed., A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, London 1997, p. 781)