![[Elizabeth Chudleigh] Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston taken at the Bar of the house of Lords.](jpegs/63597.jpg)
[Elizabeth Chudleigh] Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston taken at the Bar of the house of Lords. Apr.l 15 1776.
Published by G. Robinson as the act directs May 1. 1776.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-1788). Having had a short, secret marriage, she bigimously married the Duke of Kingston. When her first husband, by then the Earl of Bristol, brought a case seeking to prove their marriage in order to divorce her, she appeared in the House of Lords in elaborate mourning dress, three years after the death of the Duke. Much ridiculed, she was satirised as 'Kitty Crocodile' in Foote's play 'The Capuchin', 1777.
[Ref: 63597] £70.00
Etching with engraving. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Trimmed into plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-1788). Having had a short, secret marriage, she bigimously married the Duke of Kingston. When her first husband, by then the Earl of Bristol, brought a case seeking to prove their marriage in order to divorce her, she appeared in the House of Lords in elaborate mourning dress, three years after the death of the Duke. Much ridiculed, she was satirised as 'Kitty Crocodile' in Foote's play 'The Capuchin', 1777.
[Ref: 63597] £70.00