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Frances Lady Carteret Baroness of Hawnes. Wife to John Lord Carteret, Daughter of Sr. Robert Worsley by Frances Lady Worsley only Daughter to Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth. [Latin text in plinth and below.]
F. Zinke pinx.t. T. Major Sculp.t.
Publish'd as the Act Directs 1755.
Engraving. 322 x 222mm (12¾ x 8¾").
Frances Worsley, Lady Carteret (c.1693-1743) was the first wife of John Carteret, Baron Carteret and later second Earl Granville. Baron Carteret was an influential politician of his time. Highly educated and one of the few able to speak German therefore able to converse with George I who spoke no English. At one time he owned a major swathe of land in North Carolina for which he was handsomely compensated after 1776. NPG: D21456.
[Ref: 17120] £130.00
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Sophia Countess Granville Viscountess Carteret, Baroness Carteret of Hawnes. Wife to John Earl Granville...
F. Zinke pinxt. T. Major Sculpt.
Publish'd as the Act Directs 1755.
Engraving. 320 x 215mm (12½ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate. Faint foxing across the sheet
Sophia Carteret (née Fermor), Countess Granville (1721 - 1745), second wife of John Carteret, 1st Earl Granville, Secretary of State. In a decorative oval frame surrounded by roses, on a lettered pedestal. Sophia was described by Lady M. W. Montagu as having ‘few equals in beauty or graces’; died of fever in October 1745 aged 25, a few weeks after the birth of her daughter Sophia. After Christian Friedrich Zincke (1684? - 1767). NPG D21010.
[Ref: 53823] £130.00
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