Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand and "Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' 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 for the proprietors
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822.
Marie de Médicis and Louis XIII and Marie de Médici and Louis XIII
Description:
Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin.
Subject (Name):
Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Grinling Gibbons and his wife Elizabeth, both three-quarter length and seated; on the right, Grinling Gibbons, wearing wig, neckcloth, and scarf, and leaning on a block on which three putti are carved; on the left, Mrs Gibbons, wearing a loose dress, and holding a string of pearls; pillars, curtain, and plant in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Gibbons and Mrs. Gibbons
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4572., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Supported by paper sheet.