Princess Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of King George II. Mezzotint by J. Faber II after H. Hysing.
- Hysing, Hans, 1678-1752 or 1753.
- Date:
- [1730 or 1731]
- Reference:
- 11664i
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About this work
Description
Three quarter length standing next to column, holding an ermine-lined robe, resting her left hand on a pedestal that holds a coronet on a cushion. Background right: trees in a park
Publication/Creation
[London?], [1730 or 1731]
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.6 x 25.3 cm
Lettering
Her Highness Princess Carolina. Third daughter to His Majesty George 2d. Done from the painting which Her Highness presented to ye late Countes of Sussex, and now inscribed to the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Sussex, Knight of the most hon.ble order of the Bath, by his lordship's most obedient serv.t John Faber. H. Hysing ad vivum pinx.
References note
Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1908, vol. 1, p. 348, no. 2
J. Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, vol. 1, London 1883, p. 324, no. 66 (as a pair with a similar print of Princess Amelia, ibid. no. 8)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11664i
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