George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron [graphic]

Description

Creator

Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker

Contributor

Harlow, George Henry, 1787-1819, artist.
Cadell & Davies, publisher.

Published / Created

[30 January 1816]

Publication Place

London and England London

Publisher

Published Jany. 30, 1816, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London

Abstract

Head-and-shoulders portrait of English poet Lord Byron, in left profile

"Portrait of George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, bust-length, directed very slightly to left, with head nearly in profile, looking down; wearing coat over waistcoat, fastened with two buttons, and high collar."--British Museum online catalogue

Description

Title etched below image.
Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822.
Bound in opposite page 684 (leaf numbered '125' in pencil) 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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