Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London.
Title from contemporary annotation on Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sitter identified as "Ldy. Cecilia Johnstone" in mss. inscription on verso. and Printmaker, title, and imprint from later statet. Cf. No. 5748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
"Half length sketch portrait of a thin and elderly lady in profile to the left. Her hair is dressed high and decorated with feathers and lace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 18, 1780, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 New Bond Street
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and A variant of no. 5749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 18th, 1780, by H. Humphrey, Nr. 18 Nr. 18 [sic] New Bond Street
Bust portrait in profile to the left of an elderly woman, thin and of witch-like appearance. Her hair which recedes from her forehead is dressed high and ornamented with a lace cap
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from later state., Contemporary ms. note identifying the sitter as Lady Mount Edgcumbe on the Lewis Walpole impression. (Call number: 780.00.00.157)., A variant, without imprint. Cf. no. 5749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Sitter identified as "Dowager Ldy Edgcumbe" in contemporary manuscript inscription on verso.
"Caricature head of Lord Kelly in profile to the right. He is bending forward, his face bloated and pimpled, his lank and scanty hair in a black bag."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and LWL 780.06.01.04: Subject identified as "Ld. North" in contemporary ms. hand, possibly Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Thomas Alexander Erskine, Earl of, 1732-1781, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Title from no. 6360 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. and Reversed version of an unidentified portrait of a man in bag wig, with long upper lip and receding chin (cf. British Museum catalogue o. 6360).
