[Lord Clive] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Lord Clive] [graphic].
Contributor: Dance, Nathaniel, Sir, 1735-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [183-?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, three-quarter length, standing to right on a hill beside a tree, looking towards the viewer, leaning on a stick held in his left hand, holding a tricorn hat in the right; wearing uniform, sash over waistcoat, sword and queue wig; river below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print of similar composition
Description: Title from manuscript note in ink on mounting sheet.
Engraved after a painting by Nathanial Dance; see description of another print of similar composition in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.410. For a discussion of various versions of the painting produced by the workshop of Nathanial Dance, see description for NPG 39 in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Proof before letters?
Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 451.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 382 (leaf numbered '197' 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 25.8 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 31.7 x 22.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English