'The installation-supper, as given at the Pantheon, by the Knights of the Bath on the 26th of May, 1788

1 portrait of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

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'The installation-supper, as given at the Pantheon, by the Knights of the Bath on the 26th of May, 1788

by James Gillray, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 4 June 1788
9 3/4 in. x 84 1/8 in. (247 mm x 2137 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D13065

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  • Samuel William Fores (baptised 1761-1838), Printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 119 portraits.
  • James Gillray (1756-1815), Caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 887 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.

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Parliament begins an investigation into the slave trade, led by reformers Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce.
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Former Governor-General of Bengal Warren Hastings' trial begins before the House of Lords.
Henry Benedict Stuart becomes the new Stuart claimant to the British throne.

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Artist Thomas Gainsborough dies.
First edition of The Times newspaper is published in London.
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Ministers of the French King, Louis XVI, reluctantly announce that the Estates General will meet the following year, for the first time since 1614.
United States constitution comes into force when New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.
First Fleet reaches Australia, anchoring in Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip, selecting a suitable site for the first Australian penal colony, names the place Sydney Cove.

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ADRIAN GREEN

02 April 2018, 18:08

It seems unlikely that one of the sitters was the 5th Earl Poulett as you state that he was born in 1783 and therefore he would have been 5 years old and there doesn't appear to be any children in the image. It is more likely that it is his father the 4th Earl who, coincidentally, 28 years later married the sitter listed before him Lady Margaret Smith-Burges. who should properly be (nee Burges) rather than Burgess.