Caroline, queen of George II [graphic]

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Title: Caroline, queen of George II [graphic]
Creator: Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839, printmaker
Contributor: Hamilton, William, 1751-1801, artist.
Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Alexander Hogg
Abstract: Full length portrait of Queen Caroline, holding a scepter; in a frame wrapped in ribbon on the top and bottom
Description: Title from text in image.
Plate from: Barnard, E. The new, comprehensive, impartial and complete history of England. London : A. Hogg, 1783.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Text above image: "Engraved for Barnard's New, complete & authentic history of England, a work universally acknowledged to be the best performance of the kind on account of its impartiality, accuracy, new improvements, superior elegance, &c."
Text below image: "She was princess of Brandenburgh Anspach, married to George II while Prince of Wales, 1704, died of a mortification in her bowels Novr. 20, 1737, and was buried in Henry the VII Chapel, Westminster."
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 378 x 237 mm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1783
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737,
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737
England > London > 1783

Access: Public
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