A D'Orsay fecit - 1839 [signed in plate.]
London, Published Augst. 5th. 1839 by J. Mitchell Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 170mm. 8 x 6¾". Small scratches in the india.
Portrait of Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield (1795 - 1854), MP for Yarmouth and Postmaster General. 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.
O'Donoghue p.61, 1.
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