A D'Orsay fecit 15 Decr. 1841 [signed in plate].
[London: J. Mitchell, c.1841.]
Lithograph with colour added by hand, india paper, india 210 x 160mm. 8¼ x 6¼". Margins trimmed.
Portrait of Augustus Villiers (1810 - 1847), soldier; son of 5th Earl of Jersey. 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.375.
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