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![[Princess Charlotte.]](jpegs/26156.jpg)
[Princess Charlotte.] She was a nation's hope_a nation's pride; With her that pride has fled_those hopes have died!
Corbould delint. Kinnersley sculpt.
[n.d. c.1817.]
Stipple on india, with large margins. Plate 178 x 114mm. 7 x 4½". Some foxing.
Corbould's engraving features a disconsolate Britannia weeping over Charlotte's tomb and funerary urn, surrounded by suggestive iconographic details that include her shield and helmet and a lily, while above her hovers a rose-garlanded bust-portrait of Charlotte, surmounted with a halo-like ring of stars from which light radiates downwards. Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), the only child of George IV and Caroline Brunswick, who tragically died following childbirth aged only 21.
[Ref: 26156] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Corbould delint. Kinnersley sculpt.
[n.d. c.1817.]
Stipple on india, with large margins. Plate 178 x 114mm. 7 x 4½". Some foxing.
Corbould's engraving features a disconsolate Britannia weeping over Charlotte's tomb and funerary urn, surrounded by suggestive iconographic details that include her shield and helmet and a lily, while above her hovers a rose-garlanded bust-portrait of Charlotte, surmounted with a halo-like ring of stars from which light radiates downwards. Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), the only child of George IV and Caroline Brunswick, who tragically died following childbirth aged only 21.
[Ref: 26156] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)