The Right Honble. Viscount Sidmouth, &c. &c. &c. [graphic]

Description

Title: The Right Honble. Viscount Sidmouth, &c. &c. &c. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth, &c. &c. &c.
Creator: Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, printmaker
Contributor: Cousins, Samuel, 1801-1887, printmaker.
Thompson, Thomas Clement, approximately 1780-1857, artist.
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, publisher.
Published / Created: Septr. 1823.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by the engraver, Bayswater
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarter length, standing in front of a pillar and curtain, facing towards left, holding rolled-up papers in his right hand; after T.C. Thompson; state before changing the words of the lettering."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Samuel Cousins engraved the plate in conjunction with S.W. Reynolds, as indicated by the altered printmaker's statement on the third state. See Whitman.
State from Whitman.
Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched above imprint statement.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Bound in opposite page 588 (leaf numbered '19' 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 : sheet 50.7 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English