While on one of these visits at Lambeth, the late _Gustavus Brander_, Esq. F. S. A. who entertained an uncommon partiality for Mr. Pegge, persuaded him, very much against his inclination, to sit for a Drawing, from which an octavo _Print_ of him might be engraved by Basire. The Work went on so slowly, that the Plate was not finished till 1785, when Mr. Pegge's current age was 81. Being a _private Print_, it was at first only intended for, and distributed among, the particular Friends of Mr. Brander and Mr. Pegge. This Print, however, _now_ carries with it something of a publication; for a considerable number of the impressions were dispersed after Mr. _Brander_'s death, when his Library, &c. were sold by auction; and the Print is often found prefixed to copies of "The Forme of Cury," a work which will hereafter be specified among Mr. Pegge's literary labours[24]. [24] 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. The remainder of Mr. Pegge's life after the year 1783 was, in a great measure, reduced to a state of quietude; but not without an extensive correspondence with the world in the line of Antiquarian researches: for he afterwards contributed largely to the _Archæologia_, and the Bibliotheca_ Topographica Britannica_, &c. &c. as may appear to those who will take the trouble to compare the dates of his Writings, which will hereafter be enumerated, with the time of which we are speaking. The only periodical variation in life, which attended Mr. Pegge after the Archbishop's death, consisted of Summer visits at Eccleshall-castle to the present Bishop (_James_) Cornwallis, who (if we may be allowed the word) _adopted_ Mr. Pegge as his guest so long as he was able to undertake such journeys.