Thomas Banks (1735-1805), London (L.2423);
Thomas Dimsdale (1758-1823), London (L.2426);
Unidentified collector's mark (L.975);
Baron Garner;
Private Collection, Zurich;
with Spencer Samuels, New York, French and Italian 18th Century Master Drawings, 1985, no. 17,
where acquired, 1985

This spirited caricature is very close in size, execution and style to others by Giovanni Battista in his Tomo terzo di caricature, dated by Knox to the period of 1754-62.  The Tomo Terzo, formerly in the Algarotti-Corniani collection, was dismantled in order to be sold at Christie's on 9 April 1943.  Tiepolo's caricatures must originally have been preserved in three volumes, and in an 1854 catalogue of the Algarotti-Corniani collection, two such volumes are listed, containing 'una copiosa collezione di disegni umoristici del Tiepolo'.¹   

1.  G. Knox, Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition, exhib. cat., Cambr✃id🐼ge, Fogg Art Museum, 1970, no. 87