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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Also known as: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; primary name: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Details: individual; author/poet; politician/statesman; British; Male
Life dates: 1751-1816
Biography: Playwright and politician. Provided designs for some caricatures (see George 5376).

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Museum number: CIB.52494 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

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Museum number: CIB.52500 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

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Museum number: CIB.52497 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

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Museum number: CIB.52532 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Attributed to:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1813-1815

book; print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1864,0213.203-252 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankBlock cut by:John Byfield |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.13 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1928

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.9 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1928

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.8 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1892-1947

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.634 |
Producer name: BIOG25614 Drawn by:John Doyle (HB) |
Production date: 1848

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.558 |
Producer name: BIOG25614 Drawn by:John Doyle (HB) |
Production date: 1843

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.635 |
Producer name: BIOG25614 Drawn by:John Doyle (HB) |
Production date: 1848

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.633 |
Producer name: BIOG25614 Drawn by:John Doyle (HB) |
Production date: 1848

drawing; print study

Title: The Monument of Broad Bottom |
Museum number: 1854,0513.340 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780-1810

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.12 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1892-1947

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.11 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1928

drawing

Museum number: 1854,0513.330 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770-1854

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0726.10 |
Producer name: BIOG36312 Drawn by:Thomas Esmond Lowinsky |
Production date: 1892-1947

drawing; print study

Title: The Monument of Broad Bottom |
Museum number: 1854,0513.319 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780-1810

fob-seal

Museum number: 1955,0404.1 |
Production date: 18thC(late)

fob-seal; perpetual calendar; intaglio

Museum number: 1954,1207.2 |
Production date: 18thC |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

illustrated book

Museum number: 1864,0213.305-356 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:Thomas Charles Wageman |
Production date: 1827 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1864,0213.154-202 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankBlock cut by:Mary Byfield |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

medal

Museum number: M.4966 |
Production date: 1781-1790 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

pencil-holder

Museum number: 1954,1207.3 |
Production date: early 19thC

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1932,0507.28 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Holl (the Elder)After:Robert Dighton (Junior) |
Production date: 1800

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,0613.112 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel Machin SladerAfter:James Northcote |
Production date: 1828

print

Title: Miss Chester as Lady Teazle |
Museum number: 1875,0710.7032 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Henry LynchPrinted by:Graf & Soret |
Production date: 1820-1850

print; satirical print

Title: The brewers entire saloon (a bird's-eye view) | Satirist 1st January 1813. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12691 |
Producer name: BIOG21002 Print made by:William Henry Brooke |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: The guardian-angel. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7349 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: The tombs of the worthies. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5202 |
Producer name: BIOG153354 Published by:M Smith |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The trial. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5731 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HookPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1788

print; satirical print

Title: The cabinet dinner or a political meeting- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7272 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: The acquittal! Or the managers poisened with a beer of their own brewing. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7468 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print

Museum number: 1884,1108.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Léon RichetonAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1869-1884

print; satirical print

Title: The parting!!! |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4910 |
Producer name: BIOG31858 Published by:William Holland |
Production date: 1801

print; satirical print

Title: Reposing on a bed of roses. |
Museum number: 1866,1114.654 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The opposition Hydra, or Brittania's worst foe. |
Museum number: 1867,0112.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1808

print

Title: Mr Terry, as Sir Fretful Plagiary |
Museum number: 1875,0710.7305 |
Producer name: Print made by:R PageAfter:Thomas Charles Wageman |
Production date: 1819-1825

print; satirical print

Title: The state windmill |
Museum number: J,2.92 |
Producer name: BIOG130854 Published by:John Wallis |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The introduction! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7305 |
Producer name: Print made by:Monogrammist J BPublished by:D Fenton |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: The genius of the times. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8035 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The master lamenting the departure of his master. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6044 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1791

print; satirical print

Title: A Shakesperean Scene, as performed by the Brighton Company on a late occasion, to which was added th |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5559 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Carter |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: The ghost of St Stephen's or the stranger at home! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6845 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CawseAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Title: The Opening of St Stephen's Chapel for the present season (when men wish to serve themselves the Dev |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5609 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:E Macklew |
Production date: 1787

print; satirical print

Title: The common stage wagging from Brookes's Inn St James Street (papers moved on ye shortest notice) |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5509 |
Producer name: BIOG167590 Published by:Alexander McKenzie |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: Pizzarro |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12560 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ChapmanPublished by:James Whittle |
Production date: 1799

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward ScrivenAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: We, are three |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7501 |
Producer name: After:James GillrayPublished by:Thomas Kaygill Junior |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The effct of Whitbreads entire or wha want a guinea |
Museum number: J,1.164 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:C Knight |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence of John Bull |
Museum number: J,4.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:William Moore |
Production date: 1788

print; satirical print

Title: The Times - or a view of the old house in Little Brittain - with nobody going to Hannover |
Museum number: 1854,0513.291 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: [The bank of faith, and the new light.] |
Museum number: 1867,0112.37 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: St Stephens fair. |
Museum number: 1981,U.211 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: Non commission officers embarking for Botany Bay |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5574 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: Satan haranguing his troops after their defeat |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5200 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The Harpies spoiling the feast an ancient Classical story. Adapted to the ninteenth century. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7375 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: Part the second. As it ought to be. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5420 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print

Title: Ministerial races. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12673 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print

Title: [Fragment of a strip design.] |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1369 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1790

print; satirical print

Title: Preliminaries of peace, or politicians puzzled. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6967 |
Producer name: Print made by:Piercy RobertsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1801

print; satirical print

Title: A nest of Billy biters. Lately discovered in an ancient chapel in the West-Minster |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: The. R-g-ncy. park. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8074 |
Producer name: BIOG150560 Published by:M Jones |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: The pleasing and instructive game of messengers- or summer amusement for Iohn Bull!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7483 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: [Fragment of a strip design.] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5865 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1790

print; satirical print

Title: The election contest. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5764 |
Producer name: BIOG16981 Published by:James Aitken |
Production date: 1788

print; satirical print

Title: A scene in the school for scandal. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5552 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: Vision of justice with a view of the harmonic society |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5142 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: He has put his foot in it. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8016 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print

Title: The Union club. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6928 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1801

print

Museum number: 1843,0513.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward ScrivenAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: A pair of broad bottoms |
Museum number: J,3.107 |
Producer name: Print made by:William HeathPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: Veluti in speculum. |
Museum number: 1897,1117.20 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1788

print; satirical print

Title: A pair of broad bottoms |
Museum number: 1867,0112.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:William HeathPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: Hungry rats in an empty barn. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7434 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: Satans, return from [Egypt] Earth. Discovered in council- with Belzebub & Belial- a sketch after Fus |
Museum number: 1935,0522.9.104 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CawseLettering engraved by:F Sansom |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1867,1214.279 |
Producer name: After:Philip James de LoutherbourgPrint made by:Angelo Albanesi |
Production date: 1779

print; satirical print

Title: The manager in despair |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.23.73 |
Producer name: BIOG168563 Published by:T Brown |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: [Frontispiece to The Satirist, Vol. I.] |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7164 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: Patriotic-petitions on the convention. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7701 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: The groans and dissolution of all the talents. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7540 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: Tears of sensibility- sympathy a poem- let's all be unhappy together ie the Whig club in distress &c |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6749 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1798

print; satirical print

Title: Modern Atlas's tottering under a globe of their own formation!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7476 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: Spleen, vide Pope. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12592 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: Strong symptoms of loyalty. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6882 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: Hi nostri reditus, expectatique triumphi! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5074 |
Producer name: BIOG167115 Published by:J Whitaker |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The horrid assassin Is Hatfield, attempting to shoot the king in Drury Lane theatre- on the 15th of |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6887 |
Producer name: BIOG168524 Published by:J Garbaneli |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Title: Ceceders in limbo- ie- vagabond's made usefull |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6789 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1798

print; satirical print

Title: Hungry rats in an empty barn. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.142 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: [Frontispiece to The Satirist, Vol. I.] |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7163 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: The blessings of peace. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4979 |
Producer name: BIOG153354 Published by:M Smith |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: General Blackbeard wounded at the Battle of Leadenhall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5093 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Pro Bono Publico. The Political Cluster in terrorem |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5352 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Brown |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The honey moon. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7426 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The Maidstone whitewasher |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6817 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1799

print; satirical print

Title: John Bulls watchman neglecting his duty!!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6841 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CawseLettering engraved by:F Sansom |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.6566 |
Producer name: After:Isaac CruikshankAfter:Richard Newton |
Production date: 1796

print; satirical print

Title: [The Union club.] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6978 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1801

print; satirical print

Title: The delicate investigation or secrets of- Time Three o Clock in the Morning!!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12711 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Spleen, vide Pope. |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7165 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel De WildePublished by:S Tipper |
Production date: 1808