The head of Master Lambton ; John Hunter. Mezzotint by S. Cousins, ca. 1825, after Sir J. Reynolds and Sir T. Lawrence.

After two paintings, one by Lawrence and the other by Reynolds. Cousins first used the plate for the Lawrence composition but abandoned it unfinished and reused the plate for the Reynolds composition, which was also abandoned unfinished. The painting by Lawrence had been painted and exhibited in 1825, and was bought by the National Gallery, London, in 2021. The painting by Reynolds of John Hunter had been painted in 1786-1789, and presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1821. The present print presumably predates a finished mezzotint of the Master Lambton portrait, which Cousins successfully completed on a different plate in 1827 (Whitman, op. cit. no. 98, pp. 77-79; Wellcome catalogue no. 3312962i). There does not appear to be a finished state of the mezzotint of John Hunter by Cousins after Reynolds