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Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P.

Print
4 November 1825 (published)
Artist/Maker
Longman & Co. (Publisher)
William Thomas Fry (engraver)
Joshua Reynolds (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (engraved)

Stipple engraving. Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P. (1751-1816), dramatist. Portrait, half-length, facing slightly left. After the oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1789. Plate from an unidentified publication. Lettered with artists’ and sitter’s names and Published by Longman & Co. London. Novr. 4, 1825.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleRt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Stipple engraving plate
Printing Ink
Stipple Engraving
Brief description
Stipple engraving by William Thomas Fry (1789-1843). Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P. (1751-1816), dramatist. Portrait, half-length, facing slightly left. After the oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1789. Plate from an unidentified publication. Lettered with artists’ and sitter’s names, publisher and publication date.
Physical description
Stipple engraving. Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P. (1751-1816), dramatist. Portrait, half-length, facing slightly left. After the oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1789. Plate from an unidentified publication. Lettered with artists’ and sitter’s names and Published by Longman & Co. London. Novr. 4, 1825.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.1cm (Cut to)
  • Width: 13.7cm (Cut to)
Taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1965 published by HMSO 1966.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Lettered with artists’ and sitter’s names )
  • 'Published by Longman & Co. London. Novr. 4, 1825.' (Lettered )
Credit line
Given by the Public Library and Museum, Hove
Production
Plate from an unidentified publication
Subjects depicted
Portraiture
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1965. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.27-1965

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O697216/rt-hon-richard-brinsley-sheridan-print-william-thomas-fry/
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