[Frank Sheridan] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Frank Sheridan] [graphic]
Creator: Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872, printmaker
Contributor: Graf, J., printer.
Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, comte d', 1801-1852, artist.
Mitchell, John, active 1832-1889, publisher.
Published / Created: [1844]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street and C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty
Abstract: Portrait of politician Frank Sheridan; bust-length in profile to left, with beard and wearing a collar and jacket
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
"Frank Sheridan" written beneath Lewis Walpole Library impression, on mounting page.
Richard James Lane lithographed the majority (possibly all) of the profile portraits after D'Orsay that were published by J. Mitchelll; see Curator's comments in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,1018.99.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted before page [vii] (leaf numbered '7' 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 32.9 x 23.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English