Louisa [graphic] : vide Sheridans Duenna : engrav'd from an original picture painted by Mr. John Russell / Russell pinxt. ; Walker excudt. ; Read sculpt.

London : Pubd. April 11, 1778, by J. Walker, No. 13, Parliament Street, [11 April 1778]

1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; plate mark 25.3 x 19 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 19.5 cm

laid paper

Title etched below image.

Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree.

"Portrait of the actress Anne Brown (later Cargill) as the character Louisa from Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna'; half-length, directed and looking three-quarters to right, smiling and lifting from her face with her left hand a voluminous veil, which covers her head and is draped about her shoulders and bosom; her right hand raised in front of her, with forefinger up; wearing low-necked dress with slashed sleeves, the cuffs trimmed with pointed lace, hair worn high; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

June 30, 2023

Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 340, no. 5