"Two adjacent designs: on the left Sheridan drink-sodden and blear-eyed, stoops obsequiously, right hand on heart, hat held low, directed to the right. He says, slyly, "Gentlemen, it is with the most unfeigned submission I present myself to Your Notice, most Humbly requesting your kind suffrages to return me (although unworthy) one of Your representatives for the great City of Westminster, and when I consider whom I succeed, I cannot but sincerly [sic] deplore his loss, but much more so my inadequacy to fill his place, and can only most solemnly promise to exert the utmost of my poor abilities to keep my place." On the right Sheridan with legs astride, hands thrust in his breeches pocket, hat on his head, still drink-sodden and sly, but more alert, says, looking to the left: "Electors, I feel a satisfaction in my own bosom (which I cannot refrain from expressing,) that my transcendant Merit fully entitle me to be chosen your representative, and that you have barely done yourselves justice in returnig [sic] me, why you must have been cursed fools if you had not, & as to that Mr Paul & Mr Cobbett, their speeches are so ungentlemanlike that I do not think it worth my while to answer them, why the fellows say I get drunk one half the day, & lie in bed the other, I dont chuse to answer that, they say I don't pay my Debts Fools! what did I want to get into Parliament for, they say I have never signed those measures since I have been in administration which I so strongly declared necessary while out of Office, this shews their Ignorance! why should I propose reform now when all my Friends have got to be served.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Canvassing candidate
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 621 (leaf numbered '58' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Cobbett, William, 1763-1835., Paull, James, 1770-1808., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
"Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case; one, wearing old-fashioned court dress with a sword, takes snuff from the other's ram's-horn mull; he says: "Touch the Sillar!!! - T'is a on disgrace on aw Scotland!" They have sly, twisted expressions. Melville (left), weeping, clutches the back of the speaker's coat. He wears Highland dress, and says: "What my ain Countrymen turn their backs on me! then tis aw up with Johny Mac-cree [see British Museum Satires No. 10378]". On the right, Pitt runs off furtively to the right, saying, "I must cut out this Connexion - & leave him to his fate"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johny Mac-Cree in the dumps!! and Johnny Mac-Cree in the dumps!!
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: C. Wilmott 1801.
Publisher:
Published April 12 - 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Portrait of John Horne Tooke; half length, to the right, wearing queue wig and unbuttoned black jacket over a waistcoat and cravat
Description:
Title engraved below image., Later state, with altered imprint statement. For an earlier state with the imprint "Published March 25th, 1791, by A. Smith, No. 10 Millbank Row," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D6960)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 339 (leaf numbered '160' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 10th, 1791, by Anker Smith, Church Lane Chelsea, & No. 9 Milbank Row, also by Mr. Skelton in the Hay Markey and Printed by C.W. Richards
Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliament, 1764.
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, three-quarter length seated three-quarter to left, at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney', a letter addressed 'To Huy. Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 94 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small contemporary annotation in ink, perhaps monogrammatic initials, above printmaker's signature.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 267b); seated half-length, directed slightly to right and looking to front full-face, his right hand resting on the arm of the chair, wearing a dark double-breasted coat; scratched-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched beneath image, in lower right., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched in lower left., Early state of a plate from: Lawrence, T. Engravings from the choicest works of Sir Thomas Lawrence ... London : H. Graves & Co., [1846]., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 290 (leaf numbered '118' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 20, 1844, by H. Graves & Co., printsellers to the Queen, 6, Pall Mall
"Portrait of Joseph Richardson, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, in double-breasted jacket; after Sir Martin Archer Shee; finished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image, Frontispiece to: Literary relics of the late Joseph Richardson, Esq. ... London : Printed for J. Ridgway, 1807., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 438 (leaf numbered '52 in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
J. Ridgway
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803, and Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 48); standing three-quarter length to right, head turned to face front, with his right hand in his trouser pocket and his left leaning on a table beside at right, pillar and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state
Description:
Title etched below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 264 (leaf numbered '80' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 1, 1837, by Hodgson & Graves, printsellers to Her Majesty, 6, Pall Mall
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); three-quarter length, directed and facing to the left and looking slightly to the front, left hand at his side, glove on right hand, resting in a fist on a table in front of him, with an inkwell and papers; closed letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from Hamilton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in opposite title page (leaf numbered '2' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 30th, 1791, by Jno. Hall, No. 83 Berwick Street, Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Street, T. Macklin, Poets Gallery & Fleet Street, & B.B. Evans in the Poultry, &c., and Printed by C.W. Richards
Three-quarter length portrait, standing, turned slightly right, with hands folded, looking to front; wearing dark jacket with star on the left breast; table at left, curtain behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Proof state, with "Proof" etched in lower right., Plate from: Lodge, E. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. London : Harding and Lepard, 1835., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 552 (leaf numbered '162' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1835, by Harding & Lepard, Pall Mall East
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828,
"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., and 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.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1, 1803, by S.W. Reynolds, 47 Poland Street, London