A print after Romney's portrait of Amy Lyon, mistress of The Honorable Charles Greville who, wanting a portrait of her, introduced her to Romney. She later became Emma, Lady Hamilton and still later, the mistress of Admiral Lord Nelson. She is shown in profile, in a bonnet with a blue ribbon, seated on a chair outdoors under a tree, head bent over her sewing. On the left in the distance, two sheep rest peacefully on the hillside
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from Horne.
Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide Cymbeline, Act 4, Sc. 4.", and One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
"A drunken party; four men drinking heavily in a tavern, one with a cloth over his head, the others gathered round him, a fifth laid out asleep on a table at left; on a barrel at right a statue group of Charity, echoing the poses of the main figures; numerous empty bottles in the foreground; after the painting by Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on Hogarth's painting., Lettered on a coal scuttle at bottom left: 'SEG 3'., Printmaker and artist from British Museum online catalogue. See BM Registration number: 1882,0610.54., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Oct. 1, 1793, by E. Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
