Author: Coïdé (Adriano Cecioni, July 26, 1836 – May 23, 1886) (Lith.)
Title: Mr Wh Gregory Mp; an Art Critic. Issue No. 165. (Original Lithograph. )
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of letterpress description. Good. Crease from fold at top right corner. Published in Vanity Fair, 30 December 1871. Sir William Henry Gregory PC (Ire) KCMG (13 July 1816 – 6 March 1892) was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician, who is now less remembered than his wife Augusta, Lady Gregory, the playwright, co-founder and Director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, literary hostess and folklorist. The only child of Robert Gregory (1790 – 20 April 1847) and Elizabeth Gregory (née O'Hara from Raheen, 1799 – 7 January 1877), William Gregory was born at the Under-Secretary's residence, Ashtown Lodge, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. From 1830 to 1835 he attended Harrow, where he was an award-winning student. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1836, but left three years later without receiving a degree. William' father, Robert, had been an improving landlord who died of a fever contracted while visiting his tenants during the Great Famine in 1847. .
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Title: Mr Wh Gregory Mp; an Art Critic. Issue No. 165. (Original Lithograph. )
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of letterpress description. Good. Crease from fold at top right corner. Published in Vanity Fair, 30 December 1871. Sir William Henry Gregory PC (Ire) KCMG (13 July 1816 – 6 March 1892) was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician, who is now less remembered than his wife Augusta, Lady Gregory, the playwright, co-founder and Director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, literary hostess and folklorist. The only child of Robert Gregory (1790 – 20 April 1847) and Elizabeth Gregory (née O'Hara from Raheen, 1799 – 7 January 1877), William Gregory was born at the Under-Secretary's residence, Ashtown Lodge, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. From 1830 to 1835 he attended Harrow, where he was an award-winning student. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1836, but left three years later without receiving a degree. William' father, Robert, had been an improving landlord who died of a fever contracted while visiting his tenants during the Great Famine in 1847. .
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Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 18-3285
- Book number: 18-3285
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