"Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Sheridan, half-length, in profile to left, wearing a jacket open over light waistcoat and black cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charles Kinnaird Sheridan
Description:
Title from facsimile signature beneath image.
Publisher:
Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street and C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, i...
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 af...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
Half-length, oval portrait of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Lord High Admiral. Created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1739
Description:
Title from inscription on verso of drawing.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John, Earl of Bedford, approximately 1485-1555,
Manuscript in a single hand, written on vellum, describes in minute detail Waldegrave's negotiations with the Bey and Vizar in Bardo over the exchange of Corsican prisoners held in Tunis after the capture of the Maria Rosa as well as other diplomatic ...
Description:
William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825), naval officer, born on 9 July 1753 in Kensington, London, second son of John Waldegrave, third Earl Waldegrave (1718-1784) and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1724-1784), daughter of the f...
Subject (Geographic):
Corsica (France), Tunisia, Great Britain., Great Britain, and Tunisia.
Subject (Name):
Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Earl of, 1751-1814., Radstock, William Waldegrave, Baron, 1753-1825., Rance, James P., Captain., St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823., and Maria Rosa (Ship)
Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 January 1810]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, half-length, seated to left, looking towards the viewer, wearing coat, waistcoat with standing collar, and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jan. 24, 1810, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814.
