Scene in the School for scandal "Lady Teazel! by all that's damnable". [graphic]

Description

Title: Scene in the School for scandal "Lady Teazel! by all that's damnable". [graphic]
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: Decr. 5th, 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs
Description: Title engraved below image.
Later state, with alterations to imprint and addition of plate number. For an earlier state lacking plate number and with the imprint "London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map, chart & printsellers & globe-makers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs, Decr. 5th, 1783", see Colonial Williamsburg online collection, object number: 1973-381.
Plate numbered "161" beneath lower left corner of image.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted after page 182 (leaf numbered '223' in pencil) in volume 1 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 : plate mark 35.2 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 39.2 x 26.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Collection Title: Volume 1, after page 182. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Collection / Other Creator: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Collection Date: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.