Richard Brinsley Sheridan Esq. [graphic]

Description

Title: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Esq. [graphic]
Creator: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Richards, C. W., active 1791, printer of plates.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Evans, Benjamin Beal, -1824, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 April 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, April 30th, 1791, by Jno. Hall, No. 83 Berwick Street, Sold by W. Dickenson, Bond Street, T. Macklin, Poets Gallery & Fleet Street, & B.B. Evans in the Poultry, &c., and Printed by C.W. Richards
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); three-quarter length, directed and facing to the left and looking slightly to the front, left hand at his side, glove on right hand, resting in a fist on a table in front of him, with an inkwell and papers; closed letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
State from Hamilton.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Bound in opposite title page (leaf numbered '2' 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 : sheet 51 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English