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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Richardson reading the manuscript of Sir Charles Grandison in 1751 to his friends in the grotto of his house at North End [print] / from a drawing made at the time by Miss Highmore.

Accession number
PML 146432, leaf 002 (followin
Creator
Stadler, Joseph Constantine, etcher.
Published
[London] : Published May 31, 1804 by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Pauls Church Yard, [1804]
Notes
Frontispiece plate from v. 2 of The correspondence of Samuel Richardson (London : Richard Phillips, 1804).
The individuals represented in the print are identified in a list engraved below the image.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Print bound in following leaf 2 of v. 4 of a set of 4 scrapbooks compiled by William Upcott containing prints and portraits, autographs, manuscripts, facsimiles, ephemera and printed memorabilia, clippings, and original drawings pertaining to the lives of notable persons (see PML 146429-32).
Description
1 print : aquatint, hand colored ; image: 121 x 166 mm; sheet 170 x 210 mm
Summary
Print shows Richardson, "In his usual morning dress", seated at far left, reading from an open volume in his hand to a group of six men and women seated in the room at right; they are identified as, from left to right: Mr. Mulso, Mr. Edw. Mulso, Miss Mulso afterwards Mrs. Chapones, Miss Prescott afterwards Mrs. Mulso, The Revd. Mr. Duncombe, and Miss Highmore afterwards Mrs. Duncombe.
Classification
Department