C.K. Sheridan [graphic]

Description

Title: C.K. Sheridan [graphic]
Alternative Title: Charles Kinnaird Sheridan
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 Charles Kinnaird Sheridan, half-length, in profile to left, wearing a jacket open over light waistcoat and black cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from facsimile signature beneath image.
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 '8' 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 32.7 x 23.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English