_Portrait of Hobbes_ (Vol. viii. p 368.).--I have an etching (size about 6-1/2
in. by 8-1/2 in.) inscribed:
"Vera et Viva Effigies THOMAE HOBBES, Malmesburiensis."
and under this:
"I. Bapt. Caspar pinxit; W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, 1665."
It is a half-length portrait, and represents Hobbes uncovered, with his
hands folded in his robe; and is without any arch or other ornament.
Did Caspar paint more than one portrait of Hobbes? Is this the one
mentioned by Hollar, in his letter dated 1661, quoted by MR. SINGER.