Queen Charlotte [graphic].

Description

Title: Queen Charlotte [graphic].
Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: as the act directs 20 Oct. 1782.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: Portrait, bust directed to left; wearing a gown with a bow and a necklace of pearls, her hair dressed high with ropes of pearls and a scarf hanging down behind; in an oval frame
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm. Mounted below print is a signed note or letter (8.3 x 15.7 cm), dated 1806, containing four lines in Queen Charlotte's hand.
Mounted before page 431 (leaf numbered '44' in pencil) in volume 3 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 10.8 x 9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English