Louisa vide Sheridans Duenna : engrav'd from an original picture painted by Mr. John Russell / [graphic]
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33191788
Description
- Title
- Louisa vide Sheridans Duenna : engrav'd from an original picture painted by Mr. John Russell / [graphic]
- Creator
- Read, Richard, approximately 1745-approximately 1800, printmaker
- Contributor
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Russell, John, 1745-1806, artist.
Walker, John, active 1784-1802, publisher. - Published / Created
- [11 April 1778]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. April 11, 1778, by J. Walker, No. 13, Parliament Street
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of the actress Anne Brown (later Cargill) as the character Louisa from Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna'; half-length, directed and looking three-quarters to right, smiling and lifting from her face with her left hand a voluminous veil, which covers her head and is draped about her shoulders and bosom; her right hand raised in front of her, with forefinger up; wearing low-necked dress with slashed sleeves, the cuffs trimmed with pointed lace, hair worn high; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Laid in after page 192 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 25.3 x 19 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 19.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1778 - Material
- stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper sepia ink.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Cargill, Ann, 1760?-1784,
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. - Subject (Topic)
-
Actresses
British - Subjects
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Cargill, Ann, 1760?-1784
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Actresses > British
England > London > 1778
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809 or 10-1888 > Ownership
Wavertree, Florence Lothrop Sheridan Walker, lady, 1872-1952 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16680481
- Object ID (OID)
- 33191788