A collection of newspaper clippings (mostly dated 1799-1809), advertisements, and three engraved portraits (one hand-colored) documenting Dineley's efforts to find a wife. Most of the clippings have been mounted with other clippings about the Stuarts and English theatre, circa 1828-1829, presumably part of a scrapbook (unknown location), pages numbered non-consecutively. Includes some loose advertisements similarly documenting Dineley's search for a wife: "A Valentine's gift for 1800 ...", "To all qualified Ladies marriageable ...", and several entitled "For a wife". Several of the advertisements and two of the portraits were published by C. Knight; one advertisement printed by Pote and Williams of Eton
Description:
Sir John Dineley (formerly Dineley-Goodere), fifth baronet, born at Burhope, Herefordshire, a well-known eccentric residing as a Free Knight at Windsor., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside., Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by C. Knight, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners., Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee., Another very similar broadside using the same plate was published October 23d, 1799 by C. Knight. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446., and For further information, consult library staff.
A portrait of John Dineley in profile facing right with a letter in his right hand, the forefinger of his left hand raised. He wears old-fashioned dress and odd boots
Alternative Title:
Windsor advertiser
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet, to dandle on her knee., and For further information, consult library staff.
