Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Charlotte Vaughan and General Sir William Howe. Miss Vaughan was alleged to be the General's mistress
Alternative Title:
Miss Vaughan and American hero
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionary of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian Magazine, was located at Dame Street, Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian magazine (1775), p. 515. A copy of no. 5308 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5; originally published in Town and country magazine.
Publisher:
Published ... by T. Walker, Dame Street
Subject (Name):
Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814, and Vaughan, Charlotte,
"Three-quarter length portrait of a military officer facing front, looking to right. His right elbow resting on masonry; a stone fortification on right with cannon. He wears a ribbon and star, military uniform, sword and cocked hat, with powdered hair tied at the nape. In the background there are battlements with cannon."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Honourable Sir William Howe
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed 'Corbutt', which was a pseudonym used by the mezzotint engraver Richard Purcell. However, Purcell's generally accepted date of death occurred twelve years prior to the publication of this print, prompting Chaloner Smith to list it under "Engraver not ascertained." For a note about this decision, see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, page 1018., "One of a series of portraits of officers in the American War; artist and publisher may be fictitious"--Note in local card catalog record, Lewis Walpole Library., Temporary local subject terms: America: American War -- Military uniform: English., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 172 in volume 11 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 10th Novr. 1777, by John Morris, Rathbone Place
