print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1858,0417.485
Title: Object: George ye II. his Queen, & family.
Description: Group portrait of the royal family in front of a classical circular temple in a garden, the king and queen sitting at left, Prince of Wales and Princesses Anne, Amelia and Caroline at right, young William Duke of Cumberland and Princesses Louisa and Mary in the foreground; after Hogarth; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (vol. II, 1799); proof before letters. Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Ryder I; After: William Hogarth
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Production date: 1799
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Dimensions: Height: 175 millimetres; Width: 238 millimetres
Curator's comments: After Hogarth's picture in National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.126). Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
Bibliographic references: Nichols 1833 / Anecdotes of William Hogarth [and] a Catalogue of his Prints ... (p. 286); Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (undescribed); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (undescribed); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Groups, p.35)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: George II, King of Great Britain; Portrait of: Caroline, Queen of George II; Portrait of: Frederick, Prince of Wales; Portrait of: Anne, Princess Royal; Portrait of: Princess Amelia; Portrait of: Princess Caroline Elizabeth; Portrait of: Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Portrait of: Louisa, Queen of Denmark and Norway; Portrait of: Mary, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel; Illustration to: Samuel Ireland
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Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0417.485

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