Mrs. Sheridan [graphic]Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker1817.engHalf-length portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan, second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with her son Charles on her backTitle etched below image.After painting by John Hoppner, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 65.203).Probably an early state, before the incorrect artist's name "Sir Joshua Reynolds" was replaced by the correct name "J. Hoppner Esqr. R.A." For the later state with the correction, see impression at the National Library of Wales.Later state was the frontispiece to v.2 of: Watkins, J. Memoirs of the public and private life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan. London : Printed for H. Colburn, 1817.