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The Hon.ble Duncan Forbes of Culloden Lord President of the Court of Session.
The Hon.ble Duncan Forbes of Culloden Lord President of the Court of Session. To the Rt.Hon.ble Phillip Lord Hardwicke Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. &c. This Plate is most humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Serv.t Christopher Seton.
J.Davison Pinx.t. J.Faber fecit 1748.
[1748.] Sold by C.Seton Engraver in Ordinary to his Majesty at y.e. Golden Head in Suffolk Street, Charing Cross.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate. Crease down right of image.
Portrait of Duncan Forbes 5th of Culloden (1685 - 1747), Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1737. As Lord President and senior Scottish legal officer, he played a major role in helping the government suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Anti-Jacobite item.
CS 134. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64666]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales, &c.
His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales, &c.
J. Davison pinx. 1730. J. Faber Fecit. 3.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard & Jn.o Bowles in Cornhil [n.d., c.1740].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Three-quarter portrait of Frederick (1707-51), heir apparent of George II, standing in robes and ermine cape, wearing a chain of state.
CS 144, unlisted state after ii of ii; Russell iv of iv. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68491]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Hon.ble Lady Christian Moray of Albercairny.
The Hon.ble Lady Christian Moray of Albercairny.
J. Davison Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d., c.1740.]
Rare mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), large margins. Hole in inscription area repaired.
A full length portrait of Christian, née Montgomerie, daughter of Archibald, 9th Earl of Eglinton. She is shown standing on a balcony with a classical urn, her left hand holding up her outer skirts to reveal a decorated hem of skirt below. She married James Moray (1705-77), 13th of Abercairney, and had six children. Moray was a patron of Scottish musician Niel Gow (1727-1807), who wrote "Neil Gow's Lament for Abercairny".
CS 248. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67555]   £420.00  
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