Warren Hastings, Esq. from an original picture by J.J. Masquerier in his own possession / [graphic]

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Title: Warren Hastings, Esq. from an original picture by J.J. Masquerier in his own possession / [graphic]
Creator: Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, printmaker
Contributor: Masquerier, John James, 1778-1855, artist.
Cadell & Davies, publisher.
Published / Created: [9 November 1815]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Nov. 9, 1815, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Abstract: "Portrait of Warren Hastings, as an elderly man; half-length seated directed slightly to right, elbows on the arms of his chair, holding a paper in his right hand, spectacles in the other, looking down, wearing a double-breasted coat, pale waistcoat and white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822.
Bound in opposite page 317 (leaf numbered '141' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: 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. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 38 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 50.9 x 34.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English