"Portrait of the couple, half-length behind a table, holding hands; a jester on the right whispering to the Duke's ear, a curtain on the left; three coat-of-arms below the image."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, below the coats of arms., Four lines of verse in two columns etched below image, above the coats of arms: Cloth of gold do not thou dispys ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 129 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1794, by John Simco, Great Queen St.
Subject (Name):
Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837, Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545,, and Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533,
