Miss Nancy Parsons [graphic]

Description

Title: Miss Nancy Parsons [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarter length standing facing front, hands folded on her cloak which covers a ledge in front of her to right, head turned to right shoulder, smiling towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown with a jewelled belt, hair up with pearls and a diadem, a curl flying loose behind right shoulder, a balustrade behind to left, pillars to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state with added numbering
Description: Title engraved below image.
Artist and printmaker unidentified; the painter and engraver names on the print are evidently fictitious. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Date of publication from a later state described in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7303.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 93 (leaf numbered '139' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 37.7 x 27.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English