print
- Museum number
- Q,2.1
- Description
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Portrait of George III, full-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand on his hip and leaning on a table with the other, dressed in an ermine-lined frockcoat and breeches, his ermine-lined robes of state and a chain with the Great George about his shoulders, a sword-belt about his waist with his sword hanging at his side, drapery and a pillar beyond, his arms below, after Ramsay, proof before inscription
Engraving
- Production date
- 1760s (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 578 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 364 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Acquisition notes
- The album Q,2 was the twelfth of the 13 volumes of British portraits that were assembled by Thomas Philipe between 1808 and 1810. It covers the reign of George III, and the sequence of portraits is continued in Q,3. The prints were arranged, as in the other albums, in the conventional order of class. This album contained the Royal family, peers and politicians, lawyers, and military & naval personalities. Clergy, writers, artists, women, and foreigners connected with Britain were in the following album. The album initially contained 127 prints, almost all of which came from the Cracherode bequest. It was used in later years to place newly arrived portraits that belonged to the reign of George III, so that it now has 149 records.
For a general comment on the portrait series see O,7.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,2.1
