To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty this Print of The King. Is most respectfully Inscribed by Her Majesty's Most devoted and most obedient humble servant William Grimaldi.
From a Miniature by W. Grimaldi, after Sir W. Beechey R.A. Engraved by R.M. Meadows.
Published Mar. 1. 1804, as the Act directs, by W. Grimaldi, No.2, Albermarle Street, Enamel & Miniature Painter to their Royal Hignesses the Duke & Duchess of York.
Hand-coloured stipple, partly printed in colours. 299 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼". Trimmed.
George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, until the union of the two countries at the start of 1801. He was also Duke and Prince-Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg in the Holy Roman Empire until in 1814 he was promoted to King of Hanover. Another engraving from the same portrait by Beechey was used for a broadside on the death of King George III in 1820, a "Monody to the Memory of His Sacred Majesty King George III".
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn Collection. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25445] £95.00
Published Mar. 1. 1804, as the Act directs, by W. Grimaldi, No.2, Albermarle Street, Enamel & Miniature Painter to their Royal Hignesses the Duke & Duchess of York.
Hand-coloured stipple, partly printed in colours. 299 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼". Trimmed.
George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, until the union of the two countries at the start of 1801. He was also Duke and Prince-Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg in the Holy Roman Empire until in 1814 he was promoted to King of Hanover. Another engraving from the same portrait by Beechey was used for a broadside on the death of King George III in 1820, a "Monody to the Memory of His Sacred Majesty King George III".
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn Collection. Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25445] £95.00