[Drawn by C. A. Du Val.. Engraved by J. Stevenson. Printed by Brooker & Harrison.]
[Published by Thomas Agnew, Repository of Arts Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. London, April 21st. 1846.]
Mezzotint with stipple and engraving, proof before letters. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), with large margins.
Seated portrait of nonconformist newspaper publisher Edward Baines (1800-90). As a young journalist on the Leeds Mercury (owned by his father) he witnessed the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He became editor (1834) and proprietor (1848), and served as MP for Leeds from 1859 to 1874.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67841]  £280.00