The Honourable Richard Edgecumbe
Maker
After
(artist)
1723-1792
(engraver)
1773-1835
(publisher)
(artist)
1723-1792
(engraver)
1773-1835
(publisher)
Title
The Honourable Richard Edgecumbe
Date of Production
(c.) 1820
Medium
printed in black
wove paper
mezzotint
wove paper
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 16.4 cm
Width: 16.4 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.6117.75
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Literature
Nineteenth-Century Mezzotinters Samuel William Reynolds
No. 71 on p. 152
in appendix
No. 71 on p. 152
in appendix
Inscriptions
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t //
Inscription: S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t //
Inscription: THE HON.LE R.D EDGECUMBE. / Proof //
Inscription: 85 / III //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: RA1774(222)C //
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds / 250th Anniversary Exhib. City Art Gallery, Plymouth 1973 //
Label: Lit: / E.K.W., p 64 / 77 Hon Richard Edgcumbe 1774 / Mezzotint engraving, 0.22 x 0.165 / Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. / The original portrait by Reynolds, 0.76 x 0.62, was exhibited at the R.A. / 1774 (222) and hung at Mount Edgcumbe, where it was destryoed by / enemy action during World War II. / Richard (b. 1764), later 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lord / Lieutenant of Cornwall, was the son of George, 1st Earl of Mount / Edgcumbe (no. 19 & 70) and his wife Emma Gilbert (no. 71). In 1789 / he married Sophia (d. 1806), daughter of 2nd Earl of Buckingham. / Lent by the trustees of the Cottonian Collection. //
Inscription: S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t //
Inscription: THE HON.LE R.D EDGECUMBE. / Proof //
Inscription: 85 / III //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Inscription: RA1774(222)C //
Inscription: Sir Joshua Reynolds / 250th Anniversary Exhib. City Art Gallery, Plymouth 1973 //
Label: Lit: / E.K.W., p 64 / 77 Hon Richard Edgcumbe 1774 / Mezzotint engraving, 0.22 x 0.165 / Engraved by S.W. Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. / The original portrait by Reynolds, 0.76 x 0.62, was exhibited at the R.A. / 1774 (222) and hung at Mount Edgcumbe, where it was destryoed by / enemy action during World War II. / Richard (b. 1764), later 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lord / Lieutenant of Cornwall, was the son of George, 1st Earl of Mount / Edgcumbe (no. 19 & 70) and his wife Emma Gilbert (no. 71). In 1789 / he married Sophia (d. 1806), daughter of 2nd Earl of Buckingham. / Lent by the trustees of the Cottonian Collection. //
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