Production: Unknown
Double paper leaf, printed in black and painted in water-colours. Ivory sticks and guards (18+2), the former pierced. Rivet with brass ? washer
Front: On the left, George II, seated on a throne under a canopy, and attended by a guard, gives an audience to a man who kneels in front of him holding a petition entitled 'Free/Trade/and Na/vigation'. In the centre, the British fleet approaches a fort and town, probably Portobello in the Isthmus of Darien (Panama). On the right, a gentleman hands out coins while another looks into a trunk of plate. Signed on left side of leaf 'S. Clark 1740'.
Reverse: Undecorated. Sticks: Pierced with simple stylized plant motifs. Guards: Undecorated.
History note: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Bought (1985-01-28) by Countess of Rosse, Anne
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
Leaf
composed of
ink
( black)
watercolours
Sticks+guards
composed of
ivory
Guards
Length 24.4 cm
Sticks
Accession number: M.207-1985
Primary reference Number: 117792
Old catalogue number: DR 27/345
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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