His Most Excellent Majesty George the II.d King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c.From the Original in the New Treasury by the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; put up there by Order of the Lord Chief Justice Willes [...]
Tho: Hudson pinx.t J. Faber Fecit 1745
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square Where may be had the Print of the late Queen Carolin from an Original at the Duke of Richmonds by Vanderbank.
Rare mezzotint, platemark 510 x 360mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Some damage at bottom centre.
George II (1683-1760), king of Great Britain and Ireland whose reign saw the Jacobite threat reduced to nothing, the Hanoverian succession securely established, and his country transformed into a great world power. Fine and rare mezzotint after the 1744 full-length portrait by Thomas Hudson, now in the National Portrait Gallery.
O'D 24; CS 9; for another print from the same Hudson portrait see ref. 40865.
[Ref: 43771] £290.00
Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square Where may be had the Print of the late Queen Carolin from an Original at the Duke of Richmonds by Vanderbank.
Rare mezzotint, platemark 510 x 360mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Some damage at bottom centre.
George II (1683-1760), king of Great Britain and Ireland whose reign saw the Jacobite threat reduced to nothing, the Hanoverian succession securely established, and his country transformed into a great world power. Fine and rare mezzotint after the 1744 full-length portrait by Thomas Hudson, now in the National Portrait Gallery.
O'D 24; CS 9; for another print from the same Hudson portrait see ref. 40865.
[Ref: 43771] £290.00