"Three-quarter length, sitting, directed and looking towards the left, attired in wig, sash and robes, resting his arms on the chair in a relaxed fashion."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Lord North
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 214 (leaf numbered '32' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 20, 1785, by W. Austin, drawing master, St. James's Street, & W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, Bond Street
Cymbeline's palace in Britain: Standing behind a pillar, Posthumus ties a keepsake around Imogen's wrist as she looks over her shoulder fearfully at the king on the right as he angrily throws aside a curtain, catching them in the act
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from published state. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side.
Publisher:
John & Josiah Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, and Cunobelinus, King of the Britons, -43?
An incubus squatting on a sleeping woman, her head and arms falling over the side of the bed at right, with a wild horse behind curtains in the background and a small table with jug and pots beside the bed at left; after the painting by Fuseli (Schiff 757).
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Later state with scratched letters, including the title, a quotation from Ermasus Darwin's 'Botanical Garden' "on his Night-Mare, thro the evening fog, Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog, Seeks some love-wilder'd maid, by sleep opprest, Alights, and grinning, sits upon her breast", and 'Painted by H.Fusely. Engraved by T. Burke. London Publish'd Jany. 30th 1783 by J.R.Smith, No.83 Oxford Street'. From the impression in the British Museum.
