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Humphry Repton
Mrs. Siddons in the Grecian daughter, Act IV. Scene I / H. Repton Esqr. pinxt.
Dublin : Printed for Wm Allen, No 88, Dame Street, [17--]
Peel 2293
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Dublin : Printed for Wm Allen, No. 88, Dame Street, [17--].
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Inscribed in ink at bottom right: done at Dublin; in pencil on the album leaf below: "Horace Walpole's hand"; W.S. Lewis.
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Title from item.
Below caption title: The fathers valour shall protect his boy.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Portrait of Sarah Siddons as Euphrasia in Arthur Murphy's "The Grecian Daughter"; whole length, standing, turned to the right, with head in profile, her left hand on chest, her right hand reaching up to the sky; wearing plumed hat, and gown with trim and sash, with fringing and embroidery at bottom. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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