"Portrait seen almost half-length to right, head in three-quarter profile to right, wearing wig and partially open coat; after Reynolds (Mannings 73); lettered state after quotation re-arranged on two lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.2113., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: The suffrage of the wise, the praise that's worth ambition, is attain'd by sense alone, & dignity of mind., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 37 (leaf numbered '65' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With small ink ownership stamp ("T.L" within a double-lined oval) in lower left beneath painter's name. Also with ink annotations on verso, in a contemporary or slightly later hand: "N16693" and "private plate" written in lower left, and "5 s." written in lower right.
"Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra dissolving the pearl after Reynolds (Mannings 612); half-length seated to left, face almost in profile, with chalice in her left hand and pearl in her right; wearing pearl-trimmed dress and coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0328.16., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 16 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard & Jno. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"A young man in 17th century dress, in an oval, half-length facing front, looking to left, drawing back his hooded cloak with right hand to show tasselled collar and waistcoat, with left hand raised to his long hair drawn over left shoulder; from a series of ten plates illustrating heads from the 'Vicar of Wakefield;' state before character's name and quotation."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0809.494.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53, Fleet Street, as the act directs
