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1. The fair Quaker of Cheltenham [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [2 October 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.10.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- George III, plainly dressed and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, stands in profile to the right, addressing a pretty young woman (Hannah Lightfoot?) seated on a stile, a bucker at her feet. They are under a large tree on whose trunk is fixed a sign pointing 'To Cheltenham Spa'. A path from the stile leads to the village of Cheltenham in the background. Behind the tree Queen Charlotte watches the conversation, her hand pointing near her cheek. On a hill (left) is a pavilion on wheels
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four lines of verse inscribed in two columns on either side of title: Did you know the Lad that Courts you He not long need sue in Vain Prince of Songs of Dance of Sports: You Scarce will meet his like again. Midas., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Oct. 2 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadily [sic]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Cheltenham (England)
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Lightfoot, Hannah, 1730-
- Subject (Topic):
- Quakers and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair Quaker of Cheltenham [graphic].
