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- subject matching 'Folklore, legend and myth'
A selection of portraits and images that depict or allude to stories or characters from popular folklore, legend and myth. See also: 'Angels, fairies and cherubs' (Theme) and 'Nudes and naked figures' (Genre).
after Unknown artist
etching, late 18th to early 19th century
NPG D31045
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover
by Valentine Green, published by and after George Willison
mezzotint, published 22 October 1770
NPG D39150
by Unknown artist
mezzotint, published 20 April 1771
NPG D19035
by Valentine Green, published by Walter Shropshire, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1778
NPG D31620
'St George and the dragon' (Charles James Fox; George Bridges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 13 June 1782
NPG D12308
Edmund Burke ('Cincinnatus in retirement')
by James Gillray, published by Elizabeth d'Achery
hand-coloured etching, published 23 August 1782
NPG D12313
'A warm birth for the old administration'
by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and engraving, published 2 April 1783
NPG D12332
by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 14 April 1783
NPG D12336
by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 April 1783
NPG D12338
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) as Melpomene
by James Gillray, published by James Ridgway
etching and aquatint, published 6 December 1784
NPG D41671
George Frideric Handel ('Apotheosis of Handel')
by James Heath, after Biagio Rebecca
line engraving, published 21 May 1787
NPG D19013
Ann Selina Storace as Euphrosyne in Milton's 'Comus'
by Jean Condé, printed for John Bell, after Samuel De Wilde
stipple engraving, published 16 June 1791
NPG D7220
William Pitt ('Billy Caught Naping [napping])
by and published by Robert Dighton
hand-coloured etching, published 24 April 1797
NPG D47140
'The marriage of Cupid and Psyche'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 3 May 1797
NPG D12612
'Destruction of the French collossus'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and soft-ground etching, published 1 November 1798
NPG D12662
by Unknown artist
pencil and watercolour, early 19th century
NPG D2185
by Henry Bone, after Henry Thomson, after Antonio Allegri da Correggio
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1801 (circa 1530)
NPG D17374
by Henry Bone, after Titian
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, July 1801 (circa 1525)
NPG D17499
by Henry Bone, probably after Guy Head, after Titian
pencil, pen and ink, 1802 (1545-1546)
NPG D17415
by Henry Bone, probably after Guy Head, after Titian
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1802 (1538)
NPG D17416