Miss G. and The Martial Orator - Original Copper Engraving - London 1774
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Sheet with two engraved oval portraits, "Miss G—" (no. XIII) and "The Martial Orator" (no. XIV), crowned with ribbon bows and headed "Vol. VI". Lettered below "Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. Johns Gate, May 1, 1774".
Sheet with two engraved oval portraits, "Miss G—" (no. XIII) and "The Martial Orator" (no. XIV), crowned with ribbon bows and headed "Vol. VI". Lettered below "Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. Johns Gate, May 1, 1774".
This is one of the portrait sheets that accompanied the "tête-à-tête" society chronicles of the Town and Country Magazine, published by Archibald Hamilton the younger at St John's Gate, in which the subjects always appeared under a nickname or an initial.
Medium: Copper engraving.
Date: 1 May 1774.
Source: A. Hamilton Jun., St John's Gate, London.
Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 in (23 x 15 cm).
Condition: Toned paper; a piece of paper lacking at the lower right corner and a tear at the lower edge, both outside the image, which is complete.
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Sheet with two engraved oval portraits, "Miss G—" (no. XIII) and "The Martial Orator" (no. XIV), crowned with ribbon bows and headed "Vol. VI". Lettered below "Publish'd as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton Jun.r near St. Johns Gate, May 1, 1774".