Frankau, Julia; Smith, John Raphael [Ill.]: An eighteenth century artist and engraver: John Raphael Smith; his life and works (London: Macmillan, 1902)

HIS LIFE AND WORKS

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Honble the Earl Wycombe, by J. R. Smith. Engraver in
Mezzotinto to his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales &
published by him J any 25,1800. No 31 King Street Covent
Garden London. H. 25^-; Sub. 23g-; W. 18.
53. WILLIAM BURGH. J. R. Smith.
H.L., sitting, directed, and looking towards front,
facing slightly to right; high collar, light-coloured vest,
plain coat buttoned at waist; curtain in background.
Under, Painted and Engraved by I. R. Smith & Published
by him at No 33 Newman Street London; and Jno
Wolstenholme Tork June 21st 1809. William Burgh
Esqr L.C.D. Died December 26th 1808, Aged 67.
H. 15 ; Sub. uf; W. 11 ; Sub. 9f.
Born 1741; died 1808. Friend of Horace Walpole; also
friend and executor of William Mason, and annotator to his
poem, The English Garden.

54. EDMUND BURKE. J. R. Smith.
(Stipple.)
Bust, vignette ; directed, facing, and looking to right;
profile ; hair rather long and curling, double chin ; shirt-
frill projecting in front between high-cut collar of coat.
Under, The Rt Honble Edmund Burke. Drawn from the
Life. Engraved & Pubd by J. R. Smith, King Street,
Covent Garden, London March \st 1797. H. 6g ;
W. 41
I. Before inscription.
II. As described.
A copy by Ridley published 1805.
Born at Arran-Quay, Dublin, 12th January 1729; died at
Beaconsfield, 1797. Politician, orator, man of letters. He was
the son of an attorney, his father being a Protestant, and his
mother a Catholic. He laid the foundation of his extraordinary
scholarship at the highly-reputed Academy of Abraham Shackleton,
a Quaker, and thus it is easy to account for the toleration with
which he regarded religious questions. At Dublin University
he was contemporary with Oliver Goldsmith, and when he had