A d'Orsay fecit 19 Mars 1840- [signed in plate.]
London, Published by J. Mitchell Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 165mm. 8 x 6½". Horizontal creasing, and one marginal tear.
Portrait of James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807 - 1889), statesman. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
Not in O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 21824]  £50.00