Miss Maria Linley engrav'd after an original in the possession of a Lady / [graphic]

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Title: Miss Maria Linley engrav'd after an original in the possession of a Lady / [graphic]
Creator: Ryder, Thomas, 1746-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Westall, Richard, 1765-1836, artist.
Watts, Simon, active 1767-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 1, 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 Strand
Abstract: "Portrait; standing half-length in an oval in profile left, with a lyre hanging from a tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted verse below title: "when she sung sweet notes, like dropping honey, she did shed ..." Spencer's Fairy Queen.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 49 (leaf numbered '102' 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 26.3 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 20.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English