[Duke of Richmond] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Duke of Richmond] [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 July 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 3d July 1782 by C. Bretherton
Abstract: Full length portrait of the Duke of Richmond standing facing left, wearing general's uniform and holding hat in his left hand
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with dypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.3 x 13.4 cm.
Mounted with three other prints on leaf 9 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Duke of Richmond.
Provenance: Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1782
Material: etching with drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic): Military uniforms
British
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Military uniforms > British > 18th century
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > London > 1782
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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