"Portrait of Queen Caroline wearing hat; profile, head and shoulders to left; with border of acorns and oak leaves and other tree branch leaves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., After a portrait by Thomas Charles Wageman. For another engraving after the same portrait, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1513. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 351, no. 23., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1997,0928.5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
"Portrait, whole-length directed to right, looking ahead of her, holding fan, both hands on the wide skirts of her dress, wearing plumed head-dress and full court dress decorated with large ribbons and tasselled bows, in front of an arcade with pillars and a classical urn to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text below title: Born 17th May, 1768. Married to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on Wednesday evening 8th April, 1795., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 564 (leaf numbered '158' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published 25th March 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
"Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick as Princess of Wales, after Beechey, almost half-length in an oval, head in three-quarter profile to left, wearing a high-necked collar and chains at her neck, her hair tied up in a sash, plumes and a crown below, with a glory surrounding; published for 'La Belle Assemblée'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed as the act directs for John Bell, March 28, 1806, Southampton Street, Strand, exclusively for his publication of La Belle Assemblée
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1823]
Call Number:
Drawer 823.00.00.28+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of the House of Lords, crowded with nobles in the benches and galleries on either side, attending the trial of Queen Caroline for adultery with Pergami, her Italian secretary; George IV stands, hands on hips, in the left gallery, the editors of the Times and Courier lean over the front bench below it, Robert Gifford, attorney general, stands in front of them holding a finger to his chin thoughtfully while Spinetti interprets for a witness, Majocchi, at the bar, behind which Tyrwhitt, Long and Castlereagh, sit sifting papers to the left of the Queen's solicitor and Denman, who takes a paper from Henry Brougham, the Queen sits to the right in front of the bar, Earl Grey stands in the right aisle, pointing with his right arm towards the witness, and the artist is shown standing with a folio under his arm on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Initial letters of printmaker's name form a monogram., Sheets trimmed within plate marks., Five of the six prints comprising this image were issued as illustrations in: Descriptive catalogue of the great historical picture painted by Mr. George Hayter ... London : Gold and Walton, 1823. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.7373.1-5., and Annotated in black ink by an unidentified hand with numbers by each image matching those used for the printed key to the later published state.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826,, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820,, Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 1762 or 1763-1833,, Long, Charles, 1760-1838,, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822,, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854,, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868,, Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873,, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,, Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871,, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Trials (Adultery), Government officials, Judicial proceedings, Queens, and British
"Double portrait after Richard Cosway, whole-length, the Prince at left turned to front, looking at his wife on his arm and gesturing towards the garden with deer beyond at left, the Princess directed towards him but head turned to look to front, a bouquet by her side in her left hand, pillar behind; re-engraved version of an earlier plate, the heads and background entirely re-worked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Their Royal Highnessess the Prince and Princess of Wales and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
Description:
Title etched below image., Unintelligible artist's signature in lower left. Artist attribution to Cosway from Daniell., "The plate was originally engraved as a portrait of Michal and Isabella Lasockich Oginscy, with Schiavonetti named as the engraver, from which the heads were entirely re-engraved and the background altered"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0814.1261., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 417 (leaf numbered '30' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published April 12, 1797, by Messrs. Schiavonetti, No. 12 Michael Place, Brompton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,