Details
Charles Rosenberg (1745-1845)

John, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, full length, holding a cane
on glass, heightened in white, trade label, wood frame
rectangular, 8in. (105mm.) high
Provenance
W. H. S. Truell
Literature
Hickman, 1968, p. 29
Hickman, 1971, p. 47, fig. 21.2

Lot Essay

This trade label is unrecorded in Rosenberg's entry in McKechnie's dictionnary of "British Silhouette Artists and their Works"
John Fitzpatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory (1745-1818) was a friend of the Prince Regent and a member of Dr. Johnson's Literary Club. He married Anne Liddell after she divorced the 3rd Duke of Grafton by Act of Parliament.

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