A D'Orsay 1834 [signed in plate].
[London: J. Mitchell, c.1834.]
Lithograph on india paper, proof, india 200 x 160mm. 8 x 6¼".
Portrait of John Lyster (died 1840), lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards and gentleman usher. 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.111.
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