No. 74 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)

An example of Bray's interest in distinctive heads, hairstyles and headgear, which is evident in the group from which it comes. The lady, who may be a relative, is wearing a 'butterfly cap', fashionable in the 1770s.

This is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.