Original 1833 engraving with the portrait of John Murray II, the London publisher of Lord Byron and Walter Scott, seated with a sheet of paper in his hands. Engraved by Edward Finden after the portrait painted by Henry William Pickersgill, as lettered below.
Original 1833 engraving with the portrait of John Murray II, the London publisher of Lord Byron and Walter Scott, seated with a sheet of paper in his hands. Engraved by Edward Finden after the portrait painted by Henry William Pickersgill, as lettered below.
The house of Murray published Walter Scott's Marmion and founded the Quarterly Review in 1809; Byron called his publisher "the Anak of publishers".
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875).
Engraver: Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857).
Date: 1833.
Source: Published by Charles Tilt, London.
Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 in (22 x 15 cm).
Condition: Light foxing along the right edge of the image. Mounted in a mat.