Description: Dating from c.1760. Beau Nash was Master of Ceremonies for Bath from 1704 until his death. He was largely responsible for the rise of the city as a fashionable resort. Often depicted with his trademark white tricorn hat. From an Original painted by Mr. Hoare and presented to the Corporation of the City of Bath. A. Walker sculp.
Photograph from the original glass negative. Photographed in preparation for "The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath" published in 1904. See Image Refs. 10285 and 21359.