Giuseppe Haydn [graphic]

Description

Title: Giuseppe Haydn [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Ott, A. M., artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 April 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. as the act directs April 4, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "Portrait of Joseph Haydn, half-length, facing front, seated on a chair, writing a music score on a table, holding a quill pen in his right hand; after A. M. Ott; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
State from: Baudi di Vesme, A. Francesco Bartolozzi.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 592 (leaf numbered '26' 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 24.6 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 4].
Language: English