Note 24 — Parentalia:
Reading edition
This Print has the following inscription:
"Samuel Pegge, A.M. S.A.S. A.D. MDCCLXXXV. Æt. 81.
Impensis, et ex Voto, Gustavi Brander, Arm. Sibi et Amicis."
We cannot in any degree subscribe to the resemblance, though, the print is well engraved. There is, however, a three-quarters portrait in oil (in the possession of his grandson, Sir Christopher Pegge, and much valued by him) painted in 1788, by Mr. Elias Needham, a young Provincial Artist, and a native of Derbyshire, which does the Painter great credit, being a likeness uncommonly striking. Dr. Pegge being an old gentleman well known, with a countenance of much character, the Portrait was taken at the request of Mr. Needham; who, after exhibiting it to his Patrons and Friends, made a present of it to Mr. Pegge. Those who knew Dr. Pegge, and have had an opportunity of comparing the Portrait with the Print, will agree with us, that no two pictures of the same person, taken nearly at the same point of life, and so unlike each other, can both be true resemblances.—A faithful Engraving from Mr. Needham's Portrait is prefixed to the present Volume.