The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan from an original picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds / [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan from an original picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds / [graphic]
Creator: Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, printmaker
Contributor: Wright, J. approximately 1745-1820, artist.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Cadell & Davies, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 January 1814]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jan. 21, 1814, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); half-length directed to and facing the left, looking slightly to the front; curtain and pillar behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822.
Bound in as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 2 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 37.9 x 32 cm, on sheet 50.8 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English