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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
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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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The R.t Hon.ble John L.d Visc.t Perceval 10th of that Name son and heir apparant to Jn.º Earl of Egmont. Memb.r of Parliam.t for y.e City & Liberties of Westminster. Born 24 of Feb: 1710/11.
Zink Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit. 1744.
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4"). Narrow margins.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of John Perceval (1711-70), 2nd Earl of Egmont, First Lord of the Admiralty 1763-6. One of his children was Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister 1809-12. A portrait from 'A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery in its Different Branches of Yvery, Luvel, Perceval, and Gournay'. Faber's mezzotints were only completed after the first two volumes were published in 1742; the proposed third volume was never published, possibly because Lord Egmont was offended when Robert Walpole called the publication 'ridiculous'. CS: 400 ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66549] £120.00
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S.r Robert Walpole Earl of Orford- 1744. [&] Catherine, Lady Walpole.
F. Zinke effig. p. 1735. G. Vertue del & Sculp. 1748.
Pair of engravings. Sheet: 145 x 215mm (5¾ x 8½"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheets.
A pair of portraits, set in decorative ovals of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) and his wife Catherine (née Shorter). Walpole is regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
[Ref: 42146] £180.00
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