The Right Honourable Lord George Germaine one of His Majesty's principal Secretarys of State, &c. &c. / [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honourable Lord George Germaine one of His Majesty's principal Secretarys of State, &c. &c. / [graphic]
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: Jany. 10, 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1565); standing three-quarter length to right, eyes to front, wearing fur-trimmed overcoat, and his hair powdered, sword in his left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 216 (leaf numbered '37' 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 39.2 x 28 cm, on sheet 46.2 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English