Roxalana [graphic]

Description

Title: Roxalana [graphic]
Creator: Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Thane, John, 1748-1818, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Feby. 1, 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Abstract: "Portrait of Frances Abington after Reynolds (Mannings 32), in the character from Bickerstaffs's 'The Sultan'; half-length, standing, looking to right, appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
State from Hamilton.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Aa,9.22.
Sheet trimmed into an oval shape (23.8 x 19.4 cm), with ink wash added to fill in the blank spaces around the rectangular portrait; window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 174 (leaf numbered '212' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Title and statements of responsibility written in ink at bottom of mounting page, in a later hand: Mrs. Abington as 'Roxalana' in the "Sultan" / Sir J. Reynolds, pinx. ; J.K. Sherwin, sculp.
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 : 28 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English