Help on the identity of a print

Hi All
I saw a color print version of the print in the link (entitled ==settling the affairs of the nation) hanging in a thrift shop and wanted to investigate further. However I couldnt get much info on the net. The old color print I saw is also numbered 379 as the one in the link below
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear...x?assetId=965137001&objectId=3350381&partId=1

Any ideas about this print and its color variant?
thanks!
TTA

 

This link shows more info about the one in the British Museum, but i need an info about the color variant..
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear...x?assetId=965137001&objectId=3350381&partId=1

 

Your link gives all the info you would need to determine if the TS print was original, assuming you have some familiarity with prints. Color could have been added at any time.

 

thanks motherstuff...you are right...but two things seemed strange..the number 379 is also in the color print...also the color print seemed more of a lithograph rather than an add on color ..hence if it is litho print there should be info about it...however I will check it again closely
TTA

 

Just guessing: the 379 might be a plate number. You're talking 18th C for an original; I think edition numbering came latter.

If the TS print doesn't fit the criteria of the one in the BM, then you know it must be some kind of repro.

 

Thanks Motherstuff ..that is good insight regarding the plate numbering as I thought in the line of edition numbering..repro is possible for the TS and i should crosscheck it with the BM info as u said..but just for brainstorming,, even if a repro (which I assume is photomechanical production) there must be an original color litho(or painting) somewhere to make the copy from...
TTA

 

Not necessarily online.

 

Moreotherstuff...I bought the print as a closer second look made me confident ...then at home i removed it from the casing and it matches all aspects of the BM print i,e, its dimension,and all the inscription content ...and definitely it is a handcolored mettozint as i could see the plate marks and also feel a physically raised ink on the paper which i think are features of intaglio printings(mettozint being a variant) ..the difference is that mine is colored and there is date on it 1775..but the BM print says "date erased from this impression".
Furthermore the paper is very old.
Anyway thanks for the guidance you gave me...do u think it has some value?
TTA

 

I'm no good on values, but I'd have been happy to find it.

 

ok. thanks in anycase. I will see what else I would find on the net concerning it.
TTA