Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Charlotte Spencer and her lover, Lord North
Alternative Title:
Miss Spencer and Pliant premier
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1778. Cf. No. 5501 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Originally published in Town and country magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Spencer, Charlotte, -1789,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Charlotte Spencer, (on the left and numbered 7), and her alleged lover on the right, Lord North, (numbered 8).
Alternative Title:
Pliant premier and Miss Spencer
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified by George., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1778, p. 121., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., with pages 121-124 of Magazine.
Publisher:
Publishd as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Spencer, Charlotte, -1789,
"Three-quarter length, sitting, directed and looking towards the left, attired in wig, sash and robes, resting his arms on the chair in a relaxed fashion."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Lord North
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 214 (leaf numbered '32' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 20, 1785, by W. Austin, drawing master, St. James's Street, & W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, Bond Street
