Gertrude Mason-Villiers (née Seymour-Conway), Countess Grandison

1 portrait by John Finlayson

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Gertrude Mason-Villiers (née Seymour-Conway), Countess Grandison

by, published by and sold by John Finlayson, after Edward Francis Cunningham (Calze)
mezzotint, published 20 April 1773
21 5/8 in. x 14 in. (550 mm x 355 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1867
Reference Collection
NPG D39246

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  • Edward Francis Cunningham (Calze) (circa 1741-1793?), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits.
  • John Finlayson (circa 1730-circa 1776), Mezzotinter, draughtsman and painter. Artist or producer associated with 26 portraits.

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Tea Act grants the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
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General Turnpike Act regulates the system of road tolls.

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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell undertake a journey together to the western islands of Scotland.
Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer debuts in London's Covent Garden Theatre.

International

Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
Boston Tea Party demonstrates opposition in the colonies to the import duty on tea. Some fifty colonists, disguised as Indians, tip a valuable cargo of tea into Boston harbour as a protest against the British tax.
Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order.

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