The Rev.d James Berresford Author of the 'Miseries of Human Life' & drawn in the Printroom of the British Museum for my friend J. T. Smith - Tho.s Foster. May 19th 1823.
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00