A Collection of Portraits, Sketched from the Life Since the Year 1793...and engraved in imitation of original drawings, vol. 1
Artwork Details
- Title: A Collection of Portraits, Sketched from the Life Since the Year 1793...and engraved in imitation of original drawings, vol. 1
- Engraver: William Daniell (British, 1769–1837 London)
- Artist: After George Dance (British, London 1741–1825 London)
- Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown
- Printer: William Matthew Thiselton (London)
- Sitter: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (British, London 1717–1797 London)
- Sitter: George Steevens (British, Stepney 1734–1800 Hampstead)
- Sitter: Major James Rennell (British, born Chudleigh, Devonshire, 1742)
- Sitter: Right Reverend Doctor William Dickson (British, 1745–1804 London)
- Sitter: James Boswell (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1740–1795 London)
- Sitter: John Moore M.D. (British, Stirling 1730–1802 Richmond)
- Sitter: George Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (British, 1755–1810)
- Sitter: Sir John Anstruther, Baronet (British, Elie, Firth, Scotland 1753–1811 London)
- Sitter: Tiberius Cavallo F.R.S. (Italian, Naples 1749)
- Sitter: Bennet Langton (British, Langton-by-Spilsby, Lincolnshire 1737–1801 Southampton)
- Sitter: John Flaxman (British, York 1755–1826 London)
- Sitter: Sir William Chambers (British (born Sweden), Göteborg 1723–1796 London)
- Sitter: Reverend Charles Agar (Irish, 1736–1809)
- Sitter: Right Honorable Alan Gardner (British, born Uhoxeter, Staffordshire 1742)
- Sitter: Charles Bingham, First Earl of Lucan (British, 1730–1799)
- Sitter: Right Honorable Sir William Scott (British, born County Durham, 1745)
- Sitter: Sir Giles Rooke (British, 1743–1808)
- Sitter: General Pasqual de Paoli (Corsican, died 1807)
- Sitter: Joah Bates (British, Halifax 1741–1799 London)
- Sitter: Alexander Dalrymple F.R.S. (British, New Hailes, 1737–1808)
- Sitter: James Northcote (British, Plymouth 1746–1831 London)
- Sitter: Thomas King (British, 1730–1805 London)
- Sitter: William Shield (British, Swalwell-on-Tyne 1748–1829)
- Sitter: James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)
- Sitter: Joseph Hayden (Austrian, Rhorau 1733–1809 Gumpendorff)
- Sitter: Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London)
- Sitter: Sir Robert Smirke (British, London 1780/1781–1867 Cheltenham)
- Sitter: John Bacon the Elder (British, London 1740–1799 London)
- Sitter: Thomas Banks (British, London 1735–1805 London)
- Sitter: William Seward (British, London 1747–1799 London)
- Sitter: Major General Thomas Pillon (British, born Poyston, 1758)
- Sitter: Granville Sharpe (British, born Durham 1735–1813)
- Sitter: Thomas Hearne (British, Marshfield 1744–1817 London)
- Sitter: Reverend Richard Hole (British, Exeter, 1746–1803)
- Sitter: Caleb Whitefoord (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1734–1810 London)
- Sitter: Paul Sandby (British, baptized Nottingham 1731–1809 London)
- Published in: London
- Date: 1809
- Medium: Illustrations: etching and soft-ground etching
- Dimensions: 18 3/4 × 12 5/8 × 1 1/16 in. (47.7 × 32 × 2.7 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1944
- Object Number: 44.96.2(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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