Kemble [graphic]

Description

Title: Kemble [graphic]
Creator: Sharp, William, 1749-1824, printmaker
Contributor: Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850, artist.
Sharp, William, 1749-1824, publisher.
Published / Created: April 7, 1803.
Publication Place: London and Great Britain England London
Publisher: Published by W. Sharp
Abstract: "Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Fourth state according to Baker, with title in finished letters.
Bound in opposite page 584 (leaf numbered '14' 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.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.4 x 24 cm, on sheet 50.9 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 4].
Language: English