[Mrs. Crewe] [graphic]Watson, Thomas, 1743-1781, printmaker[approximately 1780]eng"Portrait after Gardner, half length to right, looking to front with arms crossed in lap; wearing a hat with slik trim, a neck tie with long fastening falling to the bow of her scarf, a light dress and dark shawl; trees blown in the wind behind and hills at right; oval."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from later state. See Goodwin.Possibly the second state of the plate as described by Goodwin. The British Museum impression, which is the exemplar of this state, is trimmed with probable loss of the imprint and plate numbering present here. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,0625.1152.Date of publication inferred from imprint on the third state, which includes a date of 20 April 1780. See Goodwin.Sheet trimmed within plate mark."No. I"--Lower left corner.Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 518, no. 1.Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.Mounted opposite page 191 (leaf numbered '233' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.Sitter identified in ink on mounting page, in a later hand: Lady Crewe (Francis Anne Greville).