The Rose Shamrock & Thistle. To General Union. This Plate containing Profiles of Eight Illustrious Personages is most humbly Inscribed by W.S.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Fine hand coloured engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼"). On card. Repaired tears. Some surface dirt.
A rare 'puzzle' print, depicting a bunch of flowers, with a rose, representing England, a thistle, representing Scotland, and several clovers, representing Ireland. The outline profiles of 'His late Magesty Geo.e 3d' [died 1820], Louis XVIII, Wellington, Blucher, Tsar Alexander I of Russia and others can be seen within the flowers. The list of all eight portraits is inscribed below to the left.
[Ref: 56171] £130.00
Fine hand coloured engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼"). On card. Repaired tears. Some surface dirt.
A rare 'puzzle' print, depicting a bunch of flowers, with a rose, representing England, a thistle, representing Scotland, and several clovers, representing Ireland. The outline profiles of 'His late Magesty Geo.e 3d' [died 1820], Louis XVIII, Wellington, Blucher, Tsar Alexander I of Russia and others can be seen within the flowers. The list of all eight portraits is inscribed below to the left.
[Ref: 56171] £130.00