Resumen de Reading the caricature groups of Thomas Patch
The writer proposes alternative identifications for subjects depicted in a caricature group by Thomas Patch (1725–82). Perhaps the best known example of these groups, on which Patch's admittedly small reputation rests, is the portrait group recording an incident in Florence, Italy, now in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England. Recent literature has repeated the wrong identifications of two of the figures, one traditionally called David Garrick and the other Sir Horace Mann. Discussing how several of the characters reappear in another portrait group by Patch in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the writer identifies some of these figures, including Francis William Skipwith.
