A D'Orsay fecit Oct. 1839- [signed in plate.]
London, Published by John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph with colour added by hand, india paper, india 195 x 150mm. 7¾ x 6".
Portrait of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (1803 - 1854), advocate of Polish independence; son of the 1st Marquess of Bute. 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.212, 1.
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