[Mrs. Hannah More] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Mrs. Hannah More] [graphic]
Creator: Worthington, William Henry, approximately 1795-approximately 1839, printmaker
Contributor: Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875, artist.
Hudson, John, active 1819-1824, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1824]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 1, 1824, by J. Hudson, 85 Cheapside
Abstract: "Portrait; three-quarters length seated directed slightly to left, looking directly towards the viewer, arms on the elbows of her chair, holding spectacles in a case in her right hand, wearing an empire line gown, a shawl with a decorated hem and a frilled bonnet and ruff, with an inkstand, candlestick and letter addressed to Mr. Wilberforce on a covered table to right and a curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from later state.
Early state, before title and "From the original picture in the possession of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Bart. MP" added below image. For a later state bearing this additional text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1824. For an earlier state with the date "Decr. 11, 1823" in imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Portraits M835a no. 1+.
Bound in opposite page 202 (leaf numbered '15' in pencil) in volume 2 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 44.7 x 33 cm, on sheet 51 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English