Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family.
Description:
Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London., 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., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Denbigh, Basil Fielding,--Earl of,--1719-1800., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquess, 1755-1811, artist.
"Caricature portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, half-length in profile to the right, his hair or wig receding from his forehead is in a dark bag; wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway,--Marquess of,--1719-1794--Caricatures and cartoons.
