[The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP.]
(Painted by John Everett Millais Engraved by Thomas Oldham Barlow) Signed in Pencil. Published by Thos. Agnew & Son London, Liverpool & Manchester May 20th 1881. Entered According to an Act of Congress in 1881 Knoedler & Co. in the Office of the Libraries of Congress at Washington. Proof mezzotint on chine collé, signed by the artist and engraver. 610 x 455mm (24 x 18"). Slight rubbed area centre left of subject. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98), Liberal Party politician, serving as Prime Minister four time between 1868 and 1894. The original painting by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96) is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-89) was Millais’s friend and engraver of many of his pictures. PSA, Vol.I: p.142.
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