Mrs. Robinson

“Portrait of Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson, half-length in an oval, directed to left but looking forward, with high dressed hair with a cap on top, and both hands in a muff.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker.
  • Title: Mrs. Robinson [graphic] / painted by G. Romney ; engraved by J.R. Smith.
  • Edition: [State 1].
  • Publication: London : Publishd. August 25th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83, opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street, [25 August 1781]

Catalog Record 

Portraits R65 no.1+

Acquired October 2019

 

Proof plates before using aquatint ground from The English spy

A collection of 24 proof plates for The English spy, all proofs before letters and all but one before aquatint.

  • PrintmakerCruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.
  • TitleProof plates before using aquatint ground from The English spy by Charles M. Westmacott [graphic].
  • Publication[London] : [Sherwood, Jones, and Co.], [1824-1826]

Catalog Record

Folio 75 C9 824

Acquired April 2016