John Wilkes, Esqr. [graphic]

Description

Title: John Wilkes, Esqr. [graphic]
Creator: Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788, artist.
Published / Created: published according to act of Parliament, 1764.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarter length seated three-quarter to left, at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney', a letter addressed 'To Huy. Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 94 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
With small contemporary annotation in ink, perhaps monogrammatic initials, above printmaker's signature.
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 39 x 27.7 cm, on sheet 40 x 28.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English