Their Royal Highnessess [sic] the Prince and Princess of Wales [graphic]

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Title: Their Royal Highnessess [sic] the Prince and Princess of Wales [graphic]
Alternative Title: Their Royal Highnessess the Prince and Princess of Wales
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
Creator: Sloane, Michael, active 1796-1802, printmaker
Contributor: Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, artist.
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810, printmaker, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 April 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published April 12, 1797, by Messrs. Schiavonetti, No. 12 Michael Place, Brompton
Abstract: "Double portrait after Richard Cosway, whole-length, the Prince at left turned to front, looking at his wife on his arm and gesturing towards the garden with deer beyond at left, the Princess directed towards him but head turned to look to front, a bouquet by her side in her left hand, pillar behind; re-engraved version of an earlier plate, the heads and background entirely re-worked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Unintelligible artist's signature in lower left. Artist attribution to Cosway from Daniell.
"The plate was originally engraved as a portrait of Michal and Isabella Lasockich Oginscy, with Schiavonetti named as the engraver, from which the heads were entirely re-engraved and the background altered"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1261.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted before page 417 (leaf numbered '30' 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 30.9 x 20 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English