Sales catalogue 507: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/65
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 507: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Engraved Portraits—continued. 161 HOOD (SAMUEL, LORD, 1st VISCOUNT, 1724-1816). Three-quarter length, standing, uniform, leaning on rock; ships firing in, distance. Mezzotint by I. Jones after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Size 18 by 14 inches, with margins. 1785. Very fine impression. Om TOs: Elder brother of Lord Bridport; entered the Navy; for his services against De Grasse in the West Indies raised to the Irish Peerage in 1782; Commander-in- Chief in the Mediterranean, 1793-4, during which time he captured Toulon and reduced Corsica; in 1796 created Viscount Hood in the English Peerage. 162 ISABELLA DE BOURBON, QUEEN OF SPAIN (MOTHER OF PHILIP IV). Full length, seated on horseback. Etching by Goya after Velasquez. Size 13% by 12% inches, with margins. 1778. £6 6s. 163 JARNAC (COUNTESS OF). Half length, sitting, in oval, low dress, hands in lap, vase of flowers to left, in distance castle, building to right. Mezzotint by Kingsbury. Size 73% by to inches, with inscription margin. 178. £10 Ios. From the Strawberry Hill collection. Inscribed in the autograph of Horace Walpole; ‘‘ Wife of Chas. Rosalie de Rohan Chabot, Comte de Jarnac.”’ 1644 JOHN FREDERICK, DUKE OF SAXONY (1503-1554). Half length, fur-edged cloak, chains round neck, hat with feathers. Line engraving by P. Galle.
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