A vertically divided bust portrait shows on the left the Prince of Wales, on the right Mrs. Robinson. On the far left, below the Prince's feathers, is the head of the despairing King; on the far right is Thomas Robinson, the "King of cuckolds" on whose extensive horns rests a tray with busts of Lord North, Charles Fox and Col. Tarleton
Description:
Title from item. and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Tarleton, Lieutenant-General 1754-1833. (Banastre),, and Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
"Portrait of Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester; half-length directed to the left, hands clasped in prayer; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed with plate mark., Engraved after a drawing that was done after a picture kept by Horace Walpole in the chapel at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 175 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1783, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Accompanied by a key in French on a separate sheet (21 x 34 cm.). Seventeen bust portraits of actors and actresses shown in the print are at top of the key sheet and are identified by name below title, Ils sont tous dans leurs roles favoris du Shakespeare. The list of names is followed by Explication du dessein., Accompanying key housed in separate folder., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs January 20 1783 by G. Carter Margt. Street Cavendish Square
"David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Accompanied by a key in French on a separate sheet (21 x 34 cm.). Seventeen bust portraits of actors and actresses shown in the print are at top of the key sheet and are identified by name below title, Ils sont tous dans leurs roles favoris du Shakespeare. The list of names is followed by Explication du dessein., Accompanying key housed in separate folder., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs January 20 1783 by G. Carter Margt. Street Cavendish Square
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Maria Bayntun and Captain John Allen Cooper, nephew of her husband, Sir Andrew Bayntun Rolt
Alternative Title:
Lady Bayntun and Irresistible captain
Description:
Title from item., From the "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1783, p.233., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bayntun, Mary Alicia, 1754-1784. and Cooper, John Allen.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Elizabeth Conyngham, an illegitimate daughter of Henry, 1st Earl Conyngham, and Bamber Gascoyne, Lord of Admiralty and Commissioner for Trade
Alternative Title:
Miss Conyngham and Bon vivant
Description:
Title from item. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1783, p. 625.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Elizabeth Hankey and Lt.-Col. Turner Straubenzee. Their elopment to Dorking occasioned a criminal conversation suit by John Hankey
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Hankey and Dorking hero
Description:
Title from item. and From the "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1783, p. 389 [i.e., 289].
