Gainsborough Dupont
Charlotte Queen of Great Britain

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Artist Gainsborough DupontEnglish, 1754–1797

Afterafter Thomas GainsboroughBritish, 1727–1788

PublisherPublished by Gainsborough DupontEnglish, 1754–1797

CultureEnglish

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Charlotte Queen of Great Britain

Date1790

Printed inLondon, England

MediumMezzotint with engraving on laid paper

DimensionsImage: 23 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (59.1 × 36.8 cm)
Plate: 24 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (62.5 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/16 × 15 3/8 in. (63.7 × 39 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Frances Wells Stuart

Object numberB.2018.4

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DescriptionAt the time Thomas Gainsborough made the painting on which this engraving is based, Charlotte had been married to King George III for about twenty years. She was seventeen at the time of her wedding in 1761 and had fifteen children with George. Gainsborough Dupont, a nephew and student of Thomas Gainsborough, made this mezzotint engraving after his uncle’s painting of Charlotte wearing an extravagantly ruffled gown.
Provenance[Isaac and Ede, London], by 2017; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 10–May 28, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image left: Thos. Gainsborough, Esqr. R.A. Pinxit.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image center: CHARLOTTE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN &c. &c. &c. / Publish'd June 4, 1790, by Gainsborough Dupont, Nᵒ. 87, Pall Mall, London
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below image right: Gainsborough Dupont, Sculpᵗ.

No visible watermark under raking light; not possible to examine with transmitted light at time of report

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