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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)
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)
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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