Sales catalogue 466: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/36
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 466: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32 ELIZABETH (Princess, 177-1840). Three-quarter length seated, large hat, feathers, dress with white chemisette with frill, trees and foliage in background. Stipple by W. Ward after H. Ramberg. SIZE 13 by Os Inches. 17368, - £7 7s Third daughter of George III. Married to Frederick Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. 33 ERSKINE (Henry, 1746-1817). Nearly full length, seated, frill, plain coat, arms folded and lean- ing on arm of chair, landscape with mountain in distance to left. Mezzotint by Jas. Ward after H, Raeburn. Size 17% by 14 inches, with margins. Brilliant impression of this extremely rare print. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PEATE Nov 1V.). £105 Lord Advocate; second son of Henry, 10th Earl of Buchan. He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1768, became a remarkably successful pleader, and in 1783 was appointed Lord Advocate in the Coalition Ministry in the place of Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville. According to Fergusson’s Life, he was not only endowed with a handsome presence, a fascinating manner and a sparkling wit, but he was by far the most eloquent: speaker at the Scotch Bar in his time. 34 FARREN (Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, 1759-1829). Full length standing in wooded landscape. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after Sir Thos, Lawrence. Size 194 by 124 inches, with margins. 1792. £32 10s Famous Actress, married Edward Stanley, twelfth Earl of Derby. 35 FOX (Chas. James, 1749-1806). When a youth, with Lady Sarah Bun- bury and Lady Susan Strangways. C. J. Fox, three-quarter length, with a paper in his hand; by his side is Lady Susan, offering a dove to Lady Sarah, who is leaning out of a window of Holland House. Mezzotint by James Watson after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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