Scene in the School for scandal [graphic].

Description

Title: Scene in the School for scandal [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: 7 April 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street
Description: Title engraved below image.
Probably a later state, with imprint altered and plate number added, of a print published in 1783 by R. Sayer and J. Bennett. For the early state of a print from the same series, see Colonial Williamsburg online collection, object number: 1973-381.
Plate numbered "160" beneath lower left corner of image.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 182 (leaf numbered '222' 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 26.5 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, opposite 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.