Edward Gibbon, Esqr. [graphic]

Description

Title: Edward Gibbon, Esqr. [graphic]
Alternative Title: E. Gibbon
Creator: Romney, John, 1786-1863, printmaker
Contributor: Brighty, G. M., artist.
Dyer, Charles George, publisher.
Published / Created: [1819]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Pubd. by C. Dyer, Compton Street
Abstract: Full-length portrait of English historian Edward Gibbon in right profile
Description: Title etched at bottom of plate.
Facsimile of Gibbon's signature etched above title.
Plate from: Dyer, C. Biographical sketches of the lives and characters of illustrious and eminent men. London : C.G. Dyer and H. Setchel and Son, 1819.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in The Morgan Library & Museum, accession no.: MA 10252.
Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm.
Bound in after page 232 in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Provenance: Volumes formerly owned by Mrs. Colin Dary, Hidefield Place.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.6 x 10.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 42 W67 852B
Collection Title: Volume 4, after page 232. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Collection / Other Creator: Williams, Robert Folkestone, approximately 1805-1872.
Collection Date: London : Colburn & Co., 1852.