[John Cartwright] [graphic].

Description

Title: [John Cartwright] [graphic].
Creator: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Colburn, Henry, -1855, publisher.
Published / Created: [1826]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Henry Colburn
Abstract: "Portrait of Major John Cartwright; aged 81, three-quarter length, seated in armchair, legs crossed, looking at viewer, his left arm resting on armchair, holding a closed scroll."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different print of the same composition
Description: Title from facsimile signature beneath image on later state.
Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Drawn & engraved by H. Meyer.
Proof before letters. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published Feb. 21, 1826, for the proprietor Miss Cartwright by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13772).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Early state of a plate from: The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright / edited by his niece, F.D. Cartwright. London : H. Colburn, 1826.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 220 (leaf numbered '43' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Sitter identified as "Major Cartwright (aged 81)" in ink on mounting sheet, in a later hand.
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 20.5 x 13.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: English