Portrait of Edward Augustus
Date
1760s-1770s
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Henry Robert Morland (1712 - 1797, British) , Artist
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Half-length portrait of Edward Augustus in a flowered coat, right hand within sash, and queue wig. Presented in a feigned oval.
Inscribed below: ‘Hen. Morland pinxt. Richd. Houston Fecit./ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS/ Edward/ Duke of York and Albany; and Earl of Ulster./ Printed for & Sold by Elizh. Bakewell & Heny. Parker, opposite Birchin Lane, in Cornhil. & Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street.’
Inscribed on verso: ‘EDWARD AUGUSTUS (Duke of York and Albany) FRS, 1760’
Prince Edward Augustus, duke of York and Albany (1739–1767).
Inscribed below: ‘Hen. Morland pinxt. Richd. Houston Fecit./ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS/ Edward/ Duke of York and Albany; and Earl of Ulster./ Printed for & Sold by Elizh. Bakewell & Heny. Parker, opposite Birchin Lane, in Cornhil. & Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street.’
Inscribed on verso: ‘EDWARD AUGUSTUS (Duke of York and Albany) FRS, 1760’
Prince Edward Augustus, duke of York and Albany (1739–1767).
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