Note 70 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
The picture is reproduced in this volume. In the will of Sarah Rogers, who died 1743, she bequeathed to “Mr. Sergeant Eyre, the picture of her father, brother, and herself, in one frame.” The painting afterwards came into the possession of Samuel Ireland, and was bought at his sale in 1801 by “Mr. Vernon.” Its present repository is unknown. It was engraved in 1799.