Joseph Richardson Esqr barrister, and member for Newport in Cornwall / [graphic]

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Title: Joseph Richardson Esqr barrister, and member for Newport in Cornwall / [graphic]
Creator: Newton, William John, Sir, 1785-1869, printmaker
Contributor: Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850, artist.
Ridgway, James, publisher.
Published / Created: [1807]
Publication Place: London and Great Britain England London
Publisher: J. Ridgway
Abstract: "Portrait of Joseph Richardson, half-length, directed to the left, looking towards the viewer, in double-breasted jacket; after Sir Martin Archer Shee; finished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image
Frontispiece to: Literary relics of the late Joseph Richardson, Esq. ... London : Printed for J. Ridgway, 1807.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 438 (leaf numbered '52 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 31.5 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits Male 19th century
Prints 19th century
Frontispieces
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1807
Chine collé prints
Material: engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803,
Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803.
Subject (Topic): Authors
British
Politicians
Subjects: Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803
Authors > British
Politicians > Great Britain
Male > 19th century
19th century
England > London > 1807
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809 or 10-1888 > Ownership
Wavertree, Florence Lothrop Sheridan Walker, lady, 1872-1952 > Ownership