[Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Anspach] [graphic].
Creator: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Colburn, Henry, -1855, publisher.
Published / Created: [1826]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Henry Colburn
Abstract: Half-length portrait, seated, hair up with a strand of pearls; embracing a boy in the lower right who grasps at her waist
Description: Title from lettered state.
Printmaker and artist from text beneath title on lettered state: Engraved by H. Meyer, from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession of the Earl of Egremont.
Proof before letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by Henry Colburn, Jany. 1826", see Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room) accession number: EP V 266.2.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 152 (leaf numbered '198' 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 : sheet 21.5 x 15 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: English