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His late Most Sacred Majesty George II

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A print with two large woodcut portraits and letterpress captions below. On the left King George II and on the right Caroline of Ansbach, each depicted full-length in a large octagonal foliate frame.

  • Title: His late Most Sacred Majesty George II, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland … [graphic] ; Her Most Excellent Majesty Carolina-Wilhelmina-Dorothea, late consort of his majesty king George II …
  • Publication: London : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, [not before October 1760]

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760.10.00.01++

Acquired October 2023

The Royal Family of Great Britain

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“Portraits of George II, Queen Caroline, Prince Frederick, Princesses Anne, Amelia, Caroline, Prince William, Princesses Mary and Louise, all busts in ovals arranged in three rows of three.”–British Museum online catalogue.

 

  • Title: The Royal Family of Great Britain [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed for & sold by Eliz. Bakewell, print & map seller, against Birchin Lane, Cornhill, London, [between 1764 and 1770]

Catalog Record 

764.00.00.83+

Acquired January 2020