The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]

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Title: The late Right Revd. Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph [graphic]
Alternative Title: Late Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [December 1809]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Robert Dighton
Abstract: "Horsley, stout and prelatical, in apron, gaiters, and buckled shoes, walks in profile to the right, holding cane and tricorne hat in gloved hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
"A reissue, with altered title, of a plate published in 1802, 'A trip from Rochester to St. Asaph', the final figure of the date being altered and '4 Spring Gardens' inserted with a caret"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 32.2 x 25.1 cm.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 560 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 3 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 24.9 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English