A key for Mr. Copley’s plate of the Death of the late Earl of Chatham

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Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified.

  • Title: A key for Mr. Copley’s plate of the Death of the late Earl of Chatham [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Published by John Singleton Copley, R.A., Decr. 26, 1791, and sold at Parr’s Print Warehouse, No. 52 Pall Mall, [26 December 1791]

Catalog Record

791.12.26.01 Boxed

Acquired October 2023

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]

Catalog Record

760.10.00.01++

Acquired October 2023

W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich

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A classical ruined building with Doric columns, similar to the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum, is depicted; Brown’s credentials are inscribed on a chunk of masonry in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871, printmaker.
  • Title: W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich [graphic] / W. Brown inv. et delin. ; J. Robinson sculp.
  • Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1825]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 R662

Acquired October 2023