Rdus. Cosway Armiger R.A Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis / [graphic]

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Title: Rdus. Cosway Armiger R.A Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Richardus Cosway Armiger R.A.
Creator: Bovi, Marino, 1758- printmaker, artist
Contributor: Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, artist.
Diemar, Emanuel Matthew, 1720-1795, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 March 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs March 20th, 1786, by Mno. Bova & E. Diemar, No. 114 Strand
Abstract: "Portrait in Van Dyck dress, reclining on steps turned in profile to left, with his knees bent and legs drawn up, right hand at his breast, looking at the viewer, swathed in a cloak with a plumed, broad-brimmed hat, with a book labelled 'Vita Di Rubens' at the foot of a column to left; after a self-portrait."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Early state, with title in light scratched lettering. For a later state with title lettering strengthened, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1224.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1876,1209.145.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 390 (leaf numbered '6' 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 x 15 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State with title in open scratched letters].
Language: English