Garrick and his wife from the picture in the Royal Collection / [graphic]

Description

Creator

Bourne, Herbert, 1820-, printmaker

Contributor

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.

Published / Created

[February 1855]

Publication Place

London

Publisher

Published for the proprietors

Abstract

Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand

"Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue

Description

Title etched below image.
Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' 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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