The Right Honourable Thomas Alexander Erskine Earl of Kellie, Viscount Fenton, Baron of Dirleton, &c. &c. &c. / [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honourable Thomas Alexander Erskine Earl of Kellie, Viscount Fenton, Baron of Dirleton, &c. &c. &c. / [graphic]
Creator: Blyth, Robert, 1750-1784, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Home, Robert, 1752-1834, artist.
Published / Created: [12 February 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Feby. 12th, 1782, by R. Blyth, No. 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square
Abstract: "Portrait of Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, three-quarter length, seated to right in an armchair, glancing towards the viewer, his right arm on chair arm and the left on his lap; wearing short wig, open coat, waistcoat fastened with five buttons, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1914,0317.5.
Mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 468 (leaf numbered '74' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Contemporary ink annotation "367" in lower right corner.
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 31.7 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English