Major General James Wolfe. Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Forces on the Expedition against Quebec, by R. Houston

‘The market for the print based on Schaak’s full-length portrait of Wolfe was sufficiently large to attract unscrupulous publishers/printsellers. A mezzotint copy that reverses Houston’s print, inscribed only with the words ‘Corbut fecit’ appeared on the market. Corbut was a pseudonym for the corrupt engraver and printseller Purcell. Judging from the number of extant examples, the pirated print, although lacking lettering indicating the portraitist’s name, did well in the market place.’ (A. McNairn, Behold the Hero General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century, Quebec, 1997, p.186)