Hodges, C. H. (Charles Howard), 1764-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1792]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, half length in a rectangular frame, seated almost in profile to left, looking towards the viewer, holding a paper in left hand, wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar, frilled cravat, star and powdered wig tied at the nape; after Stuart; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
His Grace William Robert Duke of Leinster
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated along lower edge, resulting in slight loss of text. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 310 (leaf numbered '134' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Remnant of contemporary annotation in brown ink in lower left corner, mostly trimmmed away: ... Duke.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 2d, 1792, by George Cowen, at Thomas Macklin's Poets Gallery, Fleet Street, London, & at his house, Grafton Street, Dublin
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of the 2nd Duke of Leinster, and his unidentified mistress Miss M-n. The woman is on the left numbered 31, with Leinster's portrait on right numbered 32.
Alternative Title:
Hibernian patriot
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776, page 569.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804,
