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Sir Edwd [sic] Kerrison, 1814 (c). Coloured engraving by W C Edwards, 1817 (c) after Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1814 (c), the 1st proof for a print subsequently published by Edwards, Bungay & Boydell, London, 1818. Bust length portrait of Col Edward Kerrison looking to the left with the sky beyond, in the uniform of the 7th Hussars. Inscribed in pencil in the lower centre with the name of the portrait subject. Inscribed in pencil in the lower left, ‘1st proof’, and on the lower right, ‘Feb 1817’. The engraving was worked up in more detail and a title line was added to this proof when it was published as a print in 1818. A portrait of ‘Colonel Kerrison, 7th Hussars’ by Sir Martin Archer Shee was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1814 (no 17).