Anne Princesse Roiale de la Grande Bretagne, Princesse D'Orange, &c. &c. &c.
Amiconi Pinxit. Phil. Endlich Sculpsit. [n.d., c.1735.] Etching with engraving. Sheet 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper. A portrait of George II's daughter Anne (1709-59) who married William IV of Orange in 1734.
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Ioanes Taylor, Medicus In Optica Expertissimus Multisque In Academiis Celeberrimis Membrum &c &c XXX Anno. Effigiem Taylor libi qui demissius ab alla est...Dignum, Cui laudes Saecula longa Canant.
Ph. Endlich ad viv. del. et sculp. Amst. 1735. Rare engraving. 265 x 190mm. 10½ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album sheet. John Taylor (1703-1772) was an itinerant ocultist and surgeon-ocultist to King George II, and claimed also to be Ophthalmiater Royal to the Pope and to the Emperor, along with a multitude of royalties, including a mythical Princess of Georgia and the Viceroy of the Indies. He was the first and last ophthalmologist to travel from court to court of Europe with a cavalcade of outriders and supporters. He was a physician who conducted early research into the nature and treatment of cataracts and other problems of the eye. W: 2891-2.
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