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Illustrations.
(i) Love and Fortune; Vignette on title-page of Vol. I.;
(2) CUPID and Psyche; Vignette on title-page of Vol. II. These prints, forming a
pair, and so beautifully reproduced by Mr. George Cook, the engraver, are in the originals
much larger, while the figures are full length. It will be observed that "Love and For-
tune" was designed by Cipriani, and engraved by Bartolozzi; and " Cupid and Psyche"
was drawn by Bartolozzi, and engraved by his pupil and assistant, J. M. Delattre. The
two prints were published as a pair on the 25th of March, 1800, by R. Ackermann, at his
Repository of the Arts, 101, Strand, London.
(3) A St. James's Beauty ; frontispiece to Vol. I. (printed in brown);
(4) A St. Giles's Beauty; frontispiece to Vol. II. (printed in brown). These fine
examples of his stippled work are printed direct from the original copperplates engraved
by Bartolozzi in 1783, from paintings by J. H. Benwell, who practised from about 1782
to 1785, and who is best known by his "Children in the Wood," engraved by Sharp. The
ladies who sat for these portraits were the second and third of the seven daughters of
James Burrough, Lord of the Manor of Alton Priors, county Wilts, and lineally descended
on their mother's side from the old Earls of Huntingdon. Priscilla, the elder of the two
—the St. James's beauty,—married Mr. Brooks, founder of the well-known club of that
name; Elizabeth, the St. Giles's beauty, married Mr. Barnett, a solicitor. Miss Burrough,
a cousin of the beauties, married Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, and became the mother of
Susan, Duchess of Hamilton.
(5) The Wilkes' Mansion House Ball Ticket—" Pleasure accompanied by
Abundance"; engraved by Bartolozzi, reproduced in facsimile from a fine proof in the
writer's collection. Vide chapter on " Benefit Tickets."
(6) Robert Auriol, Earl of Kinnoull;
(7) Sarah, Countess of Kinnoull; were engraved from a pair of Sam. Shelley's
paintings in miniature of the same size, by the celebrated Caroline Watson in 1798-9, and
are fine examples of the elaborate and highly finished style of stippling in which she
excelled. The plates owe their present brilliant condition to the fact that only about one
hundred
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(i) Love and Fortune; Vignette on title-page of Vol. I.;
(2) CUPID and Psyche; Vignette on title-page of Vol. II. These prints, forming a
pair, and so beautifully reproduced by Mr. George Cook, the engraver, are in the originals
much larger, while the figures are full length. It will be observed that "Love and For-
tune" was designed by Cipriani, and engraved by Bartolozzi; and " Cupid and Psyche"
was drawn by Bartolozzi, and engraved by his pupil and assistant, J. M. Delattre. The
two prints were published as a pair on the 25th of March, 1800, by R. Ackermann, at his
Repository of the Arts, 101, Strand, London.
(3) A St. James's Beauty ; frontispiece to Vol. I. (printed in brown);
(4) A St. Giles's Beauty; frontispiece to Vol. II. (printed in brown). These fine
examples of his stippled work are printed direct from the original copperplates engraved
by Bartolozzi in 1783, from paintings by J. H. Benwell, who practised from about 1782
to 1785, and who is best known by his "Children in the Wood," engraved by Sharp. The
ladies who sat for these portraits were the second and third of the seven daughters of
James Burrough, Lord of the Manor of Alton Priors, county Wilts, and lineally descended
on their mother's side from the old Earls of Huntingdon. Priscilla, the elder of the two
—the St. James's beauty,—married Mr. Brooks, founder of the well-known club of that
name; Elizabeth, the St. Giles's beauty, married Mr. Barnett, a solicitor. Miss Burrough,
a cousin of the beauties, married Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, and became the mother of
Susan, Duchess of Hamilton.
(5) The Wilkes' Mansion House Ball Ticket—" Pleasure accompanied by
Abundance"; engraved by Bartolozzi, reproduced in facsimile from a fine proof in the
writer's collection. Vide chapter on " Benefit Tickets."
(6) Robert Auriol, Earl of Kinnoull;
(7) Sarah, Countess of Kinnoull; were engraved from a pair of Sam. Shelley's
paintings in miniature of the same size, by the celebrated Caroline Watson in 1798-9, and
are fine examples of the elaborate and highly finished style of stippling in which she
excelled. The plates owe their present brilliant condition to the fact that only about one
hundred
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