[Madame Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest, Comtesse de Genlis] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Madame Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest, Comtesse de Genlis] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Comtesse de Genlis
Creator: Lignon, Etienne Frederic, 1779-1833, printmaker
Contributor: Chéradame, Madame, 1793-1829, artist.
Durand, active 1810-1831, printer of plates.
Bouton, active 1822, publisher.
Published / Created: [1822]
Publication Place: Paris
Publisher: Bouton and [Durand].
Abstract: "Portrait of Comtesse de Genlis, half-length, head turned to the left, with frilly bonnet and ruff, and coat fastened with belt; after Cheradame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from lettered state. See Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Object Number: G2368
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Peint par Mme. Chéradame ; gravé par F. Lignon.
Proof before letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "Se vend à Paris, chez Bouton, Md. d'Estampes, Boulevard Montmartre, No. 63" and the printer's statement "Imprime par Durand," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1879,0809.597.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 516 (leaf numbered '113' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Later ink annotation with the sitter's name "Madame de Genlis" below print, on mounting sheet.
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 32.3 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 42.9 x 30.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: No linguistic content