"Portrait of Thomas Tickell; half length, to the right, head turned and looking to the left; wearing open jacket, cravat, and periwig; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The biographical mirrour. London : Published by S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795-[1814?], v. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 538 (leaf numbered '130' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray in profile. Gray wears a powdered wig and dark coat and vest. He gazes through a window at a landscape. Visible in the distance is St. Giles’s church at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is the setting of his Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The author is buried in St. Giles’s Churchyard
