[George Canning] [graphic].

Description

Title: [George Canning] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Right Honble. G. Canning, M.P.
Right Honourable George Canning, M.P.
Creator: Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Contributor: Stewardson, Thomas, 1781-1859, artist.
Ward, William, 1766-1826, publisher.
Published / Created: [1813]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Ward
Abstract: "Portrait standing three-quarter length with his right hand inside his coat, holding papers in his left hand, head turned in three-quarter profile to left; wearing dark suit, white cravat and his hair short, with long sideburns; pillar behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title devised by cataloger; alternative title from lettered state.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by T. Stewardson Esqr., portrait painter to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales ; engrav'd by William Ward, engraver to their R.H. the Prince Regent & Duke of York.
Proof before letters. For the lettered state with the title "The Right Honble. G. Canning, M.P.", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6204.
Publication information inferred from imprint on lettered state: Publishd. Novr. 1, 1813, by Wm. Ward, 24 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Square.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Bound in opposite page 550 (leaf numbered '138' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Manuscript title "George Canning" in ink below image.
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 50.7 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Proof before letters].
Language: English