print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1866,0512.1948
- Title
- Object: No.VII Lady Pyebald. No.VIII The R-g-te Amoroso
- Description
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Two bust portraits in oval frames illustrate 'Histories of the Tête-à-Tête annexed . . .'. 1 April 1776
Engraving
- Production date
- 1776
- Dimensions
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Height: 104 millimetres
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For comment on the album see 1866,0512.1779.
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
'Town and Country Magazine', viii. 121. An account of Lady Weymouth, wife of Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount (see BMSat 4460, where he is called Lord Pyebald from the colour of his horses). She is here alleged to have been a milliner who induced Weymouth to marry her by representing that she was on the point of death. Her supposed lover is a young man from R--g--te in a counting-house in the City, with social ambitions, whom she is said to pay for his attentions.
Lady Weymouth (m. 1736) was Hannah Catherine Maria, widow of Richard Russel and daughter of Thomas Smith of Worplesdon, Surrey; she died 23 Nov. 1786 aged 79.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0512.1948
