The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [graphic]

Description

Creator

Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, printmaker

Contributor

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, publisher.

Published / Created

[1 July 1825]

Publication Place

London and England London

Publisher

Published July 1, 1825, by Messrs. Longman & Co., Paternoster Row

Abstract

Half-length portrait of English dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, facing left

"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1612); half-length directed to and facing the left, looking slightly to the front, his coat fastened by two buttons; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state

Description

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 4 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.

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