Her Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain [graphic]

Description

Title: Her Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain [graphic]
Creator: Thielcke, Henry Daniel, 1788-1874, printmaker, dedicator
Contributor: Edridge, Henry, 1769-1821, artist.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [1818?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Messrs. Colnaghi & Co.?
Abstract: "Portrait of Queen Charlotte; half length, seated slightly to right; hands clasped in her lap; ornaments on table in background to right; chair and curtain to left."--British Museum online catalogue, decription of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Henry Edridge in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Later state, with title altered from "Her Most Gracious Majesty". For an earlier state marked "Proof" and bearing the imprint "Published Decembr. 2nd, 1818, for the proprietor by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0613.87.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Dedication beneath title: Dedicated by permission to Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta, by Her most obedient grateful servant, H.D. Thielcke.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm. With clipping (33 x 56 mm) of Queen Charlotte's signature mounted beneath print.
Mounted after page 430 (leaf numbered '42' 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 : sheet 24.1 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English