Pier Leone Ghezzi (Communanza 1674-1755 Rome)

Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (1710-1753)

细节

Pier Leone Ghezzi (Communanza 1674-1755 Rome)
Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (1710-1753)
inscribed 'My Lord Carnesbury' (on the verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink
12¾ x 8¾ in. (32.3 x 22.1 cm.)

来源

Lord Braybrooke; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1979, lot 104.

出版

J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800, London, 1997, p. 242, 'P.L. Ghezzi's (undated) caricature of 'My Lord Carnesbury' is undoubtedly that of Cornbury'.

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The Jacobite Lord Cornbury, eldest surviving son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon, was recorded in Rome between 1730-31, where he met with the Pretender (James Francis Edward Stuart) who appointed him a lord of the bedchamber. His activities were reported to the British government by Baron von Stosch, who was represented in a caricature by Ghezzi sold at Christie's, London, on 3 July 2012, lot 38.