Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1384

    Portrait of George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, as Prince of Wales

    Date
    1790
    Sitter
    Creator
    William Sharp (1749 - 1824, British) , Engraver
    After
    Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 230mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Description
    Half-length portrait of a young King George IV when he was still the Prince of Wales. The young prince is depicted in a high-necked jacket with a frilled collar. He wears a medallion of a mounted figure on a ribbon around his neck and the cross of St George is emblazoned on his left sleeve. His head is turned slightly towards the left. The portrait it shown in an oval frame with a plume of ostrich feathers behind.

    Inscribed below: ‘RDUS COSWAY Pictor Principis Pinxit./GULIELMUS SHARP Sculpsit./ICH DIEN/GEORGE/Prince of Wales./Engraved & Published by Wm Sharp, No.8, Charles Street Middlesex Hospital; & Sold by W. Skelton, Haymarket, Aug.12.1790.’

    George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1762 - 1830) was elected a Royal Patron of the Royal Society in 1789.
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