"Portrait, three-quarter length, standing in front of a pillar and curtain, facing towards left, holding rolled-up papers in his right hand; after T.C. Thompson; state before changing the words of the lettering."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth, &c. &c. &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Samuel Cousins engraved the plate in conjunction with S.W. Reynolds, as indicated by the altered printmaker's statement on the third state. See Whitman., State from Whitman., Proof state, with the word "Proof" etched above imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Bound in opposite page 588 (leaf numbered '19' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
