Samuel Whitbread Esqr. ob. 11 June 1796, aet. 76 / [graphic]

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Title: Samuel Whitbread Esqr. ob. 11 June 1796, aet. 76 / [graphic]
Creator: Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, publisher, dedicator.
Published / Created: [1 January 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Jany. 1, 1803, by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1873); almost three-quarter length seated to left, looking to front, his right hand resting on papers on the table to left with inkstand and watch, his left arm bent and resting on the chair; wooded landscape through window to left; vignette of the good samaritan in border below image; state after letters shaded and strengthened, and "2nd Fifty." erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from Whitman.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
Dedication beneath title: Dedicated to Samuel Whitbread Esqr. M.P. by his most obliged and obedient servant, Samuel William Reynolds.
Bound in opposite page 638 (leaf numbered '85' in pencil) in volume 4 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 50.9 x 36.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English