Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]

Description

Title: Samuel Foote Esqr [graphic]
Creator: Blackmore, Thomas, 1740-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Ryland, William Wynne, 1732-1783, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd June [the] 4th, 1771, accorg. to act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1833,0610.33.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 16 (leaf numbered '70' 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 42.1 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English