Gilbert Wakefield B.A [graphic]

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Title: Gilbert Wakefield B.A [graphic]
Creator: Say, William, 1768-1834, printmaker
Contributor: Artaud, W. 1763-1823, artist.
Johnson, J. active 1783-1805, publisher.
Published / Created: [1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Johnson
Abstract: Portrait of Gilbert Wakefield with a plain background, seated to the left, looking right, arms resting on a table in front of him, right hand resting on papers/a book. Balding, wearing a white stock(?), dark waistcoat and jacket with edged cuff
Description: Title engraved below image.
Frontispiece to v. 1 of: Wakefield, G. Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield. London : J. Johnson, 1804.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Civis erat qui libera posset verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero. Juv. Sat. IV. v. 90"--Beneath title.
This image resembles a larger print portrait of Gilbert Wakefield made by Robert Dunkarton, also after William Artaud, and published by Hannah Macklin in 1802 (see e.g. British Museum 1870,1008.2735).
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 589 (leaf numbered '20' 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 21.1 x 12 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English