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George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend

Also known as: George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend; primary name: Townshend, George; other name: (Marquess) Townshend; other name: (Viscount) Townshend
Details: individual; politician/statesman; military/naval; British; Male
Life dates: 1724-1807
Biography: Military leader and member of parliament for Norfolk (1747-64); fought at the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, Culloden and Laffeldt, and took the surrender of Quebec after the death of Wolfe. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1767-72. Married, (1)19 December 1751, Lady Charlotte Compton, Baroness Ferrers of Chartley, (2)19 May 1773, Anne, the daughter and co-heir of Sir William Montgomery, Baronet of Magbie Hill, Peebles. 1787, created Marquess. Established caricature as an important element in British political satire.
Bibliography: Eileen Harris, 'The Townshend album, caricatures and portrait sketches by GT', NPG 1974

71 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1868,0808.4253 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Paul SandbyFormerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

drawing; album

Museum number: 1931,0413.20 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Drawn by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1739-1768

drawing

Museum number: 1931,0413.19 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Drawn by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1739-1777

drawing

Museum number: 1868,0808.13152 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: General Townshend. |
Museum number: 1920,0420.170 |
Producer name: BIOG36549 Print made by:Johann Sebastian Müller |
Production date: 1763-1772

print

Title: Marquis Townshend Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Museum number: 1832,1211.20 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1820

print; album

Museum number: 1931,0413.21 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1739-1805

print

Museum number: 1920,0508.56 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Algernon TomkinsAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1840-1900

print

Title: George 1st,, Marquess Townshend. Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Museum number: 1915,0508.487 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Algernon TomkinsAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1865

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: The British Flag Insulted. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4098 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Thomas Ewart |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Honourable Coll Tounshend |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3401 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1764 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Bench |
Museum number: Cc,2.187 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1758 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Bench |
Museum number: S,2.138 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1758 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The recruiting serjeant or Brittanniais happy prospect |
Museum number: J,1.66 |
Producer name: After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The recruiting serjeant or Brittanniais happy prospect |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4057 |
Producer name: After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The most noble George Marquis Townshend |
Museum number: 1849,0328.42 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Charles Turner |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Zebra loaded or the Scotch Pedler a Northern farce now playing in the South |
Museum number: J,1.49 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: Madam Blubber's last shift or The aerostatic dilly. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5279 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonAfter:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The secret councel of the heads. |
Museum number: Cc,3.151 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Honourable Coll Tounshend |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3400 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1764 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Cato of 1757 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4060 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; album

Museum number: 1931,0413.22 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1760-1768

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.4102 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1757

print; satirical print

Title: We are all a comeing or Scotch Coal for ever |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4163 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1761

print; satirical print

Title: Sawney Discovered or the Scotch Intruders |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4178 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: Mon Bussys Secret embassy discoverd |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4147 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1761

print; satirical print

Title: Armed at both points, (unless you keep aloof,) with sword or pencil he can take you off. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6874 |
Producer name: BIOG154535 Published by:W Brown |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Title: The Curtain |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4180 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: The Triumvirate & the Maiden |
Museum number: J,1.50 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: Sawney ganging back again being turned out of place |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4854 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Francesco BartolozziAfter:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1782

print; satirical print

Title: The Zebra loaded or the Scotch Pedler a Northern farce now playing in the South |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4258 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: Sawney Discovered or the Scotch Intruders 1760 |
Museum number: 1849,1003.38 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: A corporation with their chaplain in embrio taken by surprise |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4489 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print; puzzle-picture

Title: The toy woman |
Museum number: 1995,0930.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Matthew DarlyAfter:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1757

print; satirical print

Title: The Boot & the Block-Head |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4252 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Paul SandbyFormerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The privy council of Barataria |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4463 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Hibernia in distress |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10001 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: Marquis Townshend. |
Museum number: 1931,0505.39 |
Producer name: Print made by:K MackenziePublished by:Henry Delahoy Symonds |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: The state of the nation |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5213 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print

Title: The Honourable Coll Tounshend |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3399 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1764

print

Title: The Honourable Coll Tounshend |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3402 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1764 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Madam Blubber's last shift or The aerostatic dilly. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.204 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonAfter:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Byng return'd; or, the Council of Expedients |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4000 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1756-1757

print; satirical print

Title: The Scotch Hurdy Gurdy or the Musical Boot |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4172 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousFormerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Hibernia in distress |
Museum number: 1855,0609.1934 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1772

print; book; frontispiece

Title: Baratariana |
Museum number: 1857,1212.46-47 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:Dublin (city)

print

Title: General Townshend. |
Museum number: 1931,0505.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Benjamin GreenAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1763-1765

print

Title: George 1st,, Marquess Townshend. |
Museum number: 1875,0508.1166 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard JoseyAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1866

print

Title: George 1st,, Marquess Townshend. Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Museum number: 1915,0508.488 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard JoseyAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1865

print; satirical print

Title: A corporation with their chaplain in embrio taken by surprise |
Museum number: 1896,1118.105 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print

Title: Scotch Collops an Antidote for an English Stomach |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4168 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1761

print; satirical print

Title: Monr Bussy's Politics or Goody Mahon outwitted |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4146 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1761

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The Butten Makers adjusting their Differences |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9942 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 After:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:Oxford

print; satirical print

Title: Ordnance see-saw. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5097 |
Producer name: BIOG155830 Published by:Elizabeth Darchery |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Sawney Discovered or the Scotch Intruders 1760 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4179 |
Producer name: BIOG48765 Print made by:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: The battle royal, or who wears the breeches. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5101 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The battle royal, or who wears the breeches. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.167 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Tit, for Tat, or kiss my A-s is no Treason |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4264 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Mary Darly |
Production date: 1762

print

Title: The most noble George Marquis Townshend |
Museum number: 1902,1011.5896 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles TurnerAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Military Caricaturist. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1004 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Military Caricaturist. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12577 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Stir in the City, or some folks at Guild-Hall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3960 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Anthony WalkerPublished by:John Smith of Cheapside |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical; frontispiece; title-page

Museum number: 1866,1013.886-887 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Bench |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1615 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1758 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Triumph of Caesar |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4079 |
Producer name: Attributed to:George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess TownshendPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1757 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Honourable Coll Tounshend |
Museum number: 1872,0713.240 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:Thomas Hudson |
Production date: 1764 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Bench |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1614 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1758 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the Eagles Nest on the Canal, between the lakes of Killarney |
Museum number: 1917,1208.3107 |
Producer name: After:Jonathan FisherPrint made by:Edward Rooker |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:Dublin (city)

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