John Armstrong M.D. [graphic]

Description

Title: John Armstrong M.D. [graphic]
Creator: Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1760 and 1789?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait seen almost half-length to right, head in three-quarter profile to right, wearing wig and partially open coat; after Reynolds (Mannings 73); lettered state after quotation re-arranged on two lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2113.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Two lines of verse below title: The suffrage of the wise, the praise that's worth ambition, is attain'd by sense alone, & dignity of mind.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 37 (leaf numbered '65' 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 ink ownership stamp ("T.L" within a double-lined oval) in lower left beneath painter's name. Also with ink annotations on verso, in a contemporary or slightly later hand: "N16693" and "private plate" written in lower left, and "5 s." written in lower right.
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 42 x 27.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English