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The Hon.ble George Cranfield Berkeley  Knight of the Shire for the County of Gloucester  Captain in his Majesty's Royal Navy, And Surveyor General of the Ordnance.
The Hon.ble George Cranfield Berkeley Knight of the Shire for the County of Gloucester Captain in his Majesty's Royal Navy, And Surveyor General of the Ordnance.
T. Gainsborough Esq. R.A. pinxt. Henry Birche sculpt.
Published Feb. 17th 1794, by John Fairburn, No.146 Minories London.
Mezzotint engraving, 660 x 455mm. Vertical crease breaking mezzotint surface lower right edge of plate.
George Cranfield Berkeley (1753 - 1818), admiral, entered the navy in 1766 on board the Mary yacht, under the flag of his cousin, Rear-admiral Keppel, then appointed to carry over to Denmark the unfortunate Caroline Matilda. Young Berkeley was for some time the queen's page, and was afterwards appointed to the Guernsey, 50 guns, bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Pallisser, then going out as governor of Newfoundland. Here he had the peculiar advantage of instruction from Mr. Gilbert, then master of the Guernsey, and afterwards of the Resolution with Captain Cook, and assisted him in the survey of the coast of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1812 he retired altogether from active, and indeed from public life; for twenty-seven years (1783 - 1810) he had represented Gloucestershire in parliament, and had been a persistent supporter of Pitt, and an uncompromising opponent of the Addington ministry. The publisher Faitburn has re-issued this plate first published by B. Evans in 1793
Chaloner Smith: pg.61.
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Cottage Children.
Cottage Children. The Original Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Gainsborough to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed by His Lordships much obliged and obedient Servant Gainsborough Dupont.
T. Gainsborough R.A. Pinx.t. Gainsborough Dupont Delin.t. Hen.y Birche Sculp.t.
Publish'd June 4. 1791, by B.B. Evans Poultry London.
Fine Daniell framed mezzotint, sheet 580 x 390mm (22¾ x 15½"). Frame size 725 x 540mm (28½ x 21¼"). Unexamined out of frame. Trimmed to plate.
A country scene. Two girls in slightly ragged clothing go down a path away from a cottage; one holding one hand to her forehead as she is lifted by her older companion from a donkey.
Horne 78 ii of iii.
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