Accession number:
PML 146390.182
Published:
19th century
Description:
1 drawing.
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Copied from an etching by Richard Dighton (London : T. McLean, 1819).
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Inscribed in pencil below: George Lamb / died 4 Jany. 1834 aged 49 / copied from a caricature the only / likeness known.
Provenance:
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Head and shoulders portrait of the subject, shown in profile facing left, wearing a tophat, with his right hand tucked into his jacket.
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