Mrs. Abington [graphic]

Description

Title: Mrs. Abington [graphic]
Creator: Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, printmaker
Contributor: Cousins, Samuel, 1801-1887, attributed name.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S.W. Reynolds
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing whole-length to front in woodland, resting her left arm on the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse, head inclined to left, eyes to front, holding mask in her right hand; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched beneath title.
"Samuel William Reynolds I issued a series of upwards of 350 small mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Bayswater, in four volumes. The engraved title-page is dated 1820, but many plates were issued a few years later. ... Some of these plates are stated to have been engraved by Samuel Cousins when an apprentice to S.W. Reynolds, according to Algernon Graves in his List of the works of Samuel Cousins (Whitman, p. 147)"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.8282.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 176 (leaf numbered '214' 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 22.7 x 17 cm, on sheet 34.6 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: Proof.
Language: English