Subject Heading: Love letters / Subject (Topic): Writing materials

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Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.33
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Plate numbered '218' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Publish'd 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Courtship, Draperies, Living rooms, Love letters, Sofas, Wallpapers, Women, Writing materials, and Young adults
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > On the wings of love [graphic].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1809]
Call Number:: 809.00.00.65+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, is dressed in an officer's uniform and seated at a writing desk next to a window. He turns to gaze at a portrait of his mistress, Mary Anne Clark, on the wall behind him, which hangs next to another painting of Cupid with his bow and arrow. Printed below the illustration are a love poem and a quoted extract from a love letter, taken from the work 'The Authentic and Impartial Life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke' that was published after the Duke severed ties with her in 1809
Description:: Title printed in letterpress below image., Date of publication inferred from the inclusion of extracts from The authentic and impartial life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, published in 1809., Letterpress text beneath title begins: Pretty! Pretty! Mistress Clarke, None than I can love thee better; ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Published by M.C. Springsguth
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Military officers, British, Writing materials, Mistresses, Love letters, and Portraits
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Royal love letters [graphic].