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Ex.Col.: Edgar Seligman
Ex.Col.: Sydney Vacher
Condition: Trimmed inside of plate, Three collectors’
marks on verso (Edgar Seligman: composed of The
sword of the Master-fencer, the maulstick of the painter
and monogram. Sydney Vacher: composed of
interlocking monogram. One unidentified: interlocking
monogram within a hexagon)
[27605]
£80
British Royalty
41. Right Honourable and most noble Henry
Wriothsly Earle of Southampton, Baron of Litchfield,
Knights of the most nob: Ord: of ye Garter.
Copper engraving
Simon de Passe
1617
Image 180 x 112 mm, Sheet 183 x 113 mm
unmounted
42. His Majesty George the Third King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. &c. &c. on
his favourite charger Adonis.
Mezzotint
James Ward after Sir William Beechey
London Published Feb. y 1st 1804 by J. Ward & Co.
No. 6, Newman Street
Image & Plate 643 x 552 mm, Sheet 752 x 588 mm,
Inscription Plate 50 x 552 mm
The engraved inscription on a seperate plate.
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-
1624). A favourite of Elizabeth I, Southampton had
become earl two days before his eighth birthday. A
lover of literature, he is the only known patron of
Shakespeare, and in 1593 Shakespeare dedicated the
witty and erotic poem Venus and Adonis to him.
Southampton's tempestuous relationship with the Queen
culminated in his involvement in the Essex rebellion in
1601 with his close friend the Earl of Essex. He was
condemned to death when the rebellion failed, but his
punishment was commuted to life imprisonment and he
was released by James I. Southampton was known at
court for his flamboyant appearance, particularly his
auburn hair which he wore long.
Simon De Passe (c.1595-1647) was the son of
prominent Dutch engraver and publisher Crispijn Van
De Passe the Elder. His father was the founder of a
distinguished publishing house in Cologne that
produced portraits of European nobility and religious
and other prints. The family were forced to leave
Cologne because of their Anabaptist faith. They moved
to Utrecht, and in 1616 Simon settled in London where
he established for himself a successful portrait
engraving practice. He contributed portraits to Henry
Holland's Baziliologia (1618) and made a number of
portraits of the royal family, noblemen and scholars. In
1624, he moved to Copenhagen as royal engraver to the
king of Denmark, a post he held for the rest of his life.
Hollstein 117, O'Donoghue 4, Franken 884, Hind
II.269.54
King George III (1738-1820), Reigned 1760-1820 was
the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the
first Hanoverian King to be born and bred in England.
His reign from 1760 was one of the longest and most
eventful in modern times. From 1788 he suffered from
recurrent attacks of ill health, perceived by
contemporaries as madness, which were probably
symptoms of porphyria. His illness led him to withdraw
from public life and the establishment of the Regency in
1811. However, it was only in his weakened state that