Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Sheridan, aged 25, bust to right, looking at the viewer, hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue, oval frame with bow on top, on pedestal with laurel’, 1777, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1837,0513.11. Image S. W. Fores, ‘A scene in the crown & anchor … ‘In society I have met Sheridan frequently: he was superb! […] I have met him in all places and parties—at Whitehall with the Melbournes, at the Marquis of Tavistock’s, at Robins’s the auctioneer’s, at Sir Humphrey Davy’s, at Sam …
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