Paget berkeley (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Drawn by T. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. First. A fine original colour lithograph from Vanity Fair, a magazine which was published from 1869-1914, featuring a large caricature portrait each week. These were drawn by various artists, the most famous of whom was Leslie Ward who used the 'nom de crayon' of "Spy". This portrait will come mounted/matted and ready to frame using archivist quality materials, mount size 18 x 12 inches, 47 x 31 cms. It will be presented in a cellophane wrapper with our label guaranteeing authenticity. We pack very well, between sheets of hardboard. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, with the caption ''Promotion by Marriage'. Accompanied by a page of biographical details. Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget KCB (16 April 1823 - 11 July 1896) was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane, nephew of General Sir Edward Paget and grandson of The 1st Earl of Uxbridge. Drawn By T (illustrator).…

Unbound. Zustand: Near Fine. Two pages on both sides of a single leaf. Near fine. "Mr. Berkeley Paget requests W. Jeffery will procure for him and send to the above address 'Dufieff's Nature Displayed' and also his dictionary in French." Paget served as Lord High Commissioner. Paget requests the new edition in five volumes so this letter was written after 1811.…

2pp, folio. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Excellent bold signature by the king ('George R.') in the customary position at the head of the first page. Signed at the end of the document by three of the six Lords Commissioners of the Treasury: 'B Paget | G C H Somerset | E A McNaghten'. Embossed tax stamp in left-hand margin of first page, together with remains of red wafer. Twenty-seven line document, written in a secretarial hand, and addressed 'To the Husband for taking up all Goods consigned from Barbadoes and the Leward Islands on Account of the Duties of 4 1/2 per Cent'. Order in another hand at foot of second page: 'Andrew Dickie Esqr. £54 . 10 . 0 Pensions to the late Servants of the Royal Dukes'. (Dickie was a confidential clerk and later partner in the banking firm of Messrs Coutts and Co., which handled the king's Privy Purse accounts.) The warrant states that the money is 'To enable him to pay one quarter allowance ended 5th July 1825 to the late Servants of our Dearly Beloved Brother Wm. Henry Duke of Clarence, Our late Dearly Beloved Brother Edward Duke of Kent and our Dearly Beloved Brothers Ernest Duke of Cumberland Frederick Augustus Duke of Sussex and Frederick Adolphus Duke of Cambridge'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…