"Portrait of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, after Lawrence (Garlick 554); head and shoulders to front, looking to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 614 (leaf numbered '49' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published Sep. 6, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 554); standing three-quarter length holding a brief in his right hand, with his left hand on a paper."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Whitman, A. Charles Turner., A proof state, before horizontal line-tint ruled over inscription space (State 3) and before letters of title strengthened and made thick and thin (State 4). The word "Proof" is etched above imprint statement to the left., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides, resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from Whitman., and Mounted opposite page 568 (leaf numbered '161' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1810, by C. Turner, No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square; Mr. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street, Hay Market; Mr. Molteno, Pall Mall; & Mr. Hatton, Princes Street, Edinburgh