Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh, later Hervey), Duchess of Kingston

1 portrait by Thomas Gainsborough

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Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh, later Hervey), Duchess of Kingston

by Francis Chesham, after Thomas Gainsborough
line engraving, published 1768
5 7/8 in. x 3 in. (150 mm x 75 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D1105

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  • Francis Chesham (1749-1806). Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
  • Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Portrait and landscape painter. Artist or producer associated with 268 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.

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Current affairs

William Pitt the Elder retires as Prime Minister due to ill health and is succeeded by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.
Radical outlaw John Wilkes returns to England from France and is elected as MP for Middlesex. He finally surrenders to the King's Bench and is imprisoned.

Art and science

The Royal Academy is founded with painter Joshua Reynolds as its first president.
Encyclopaedia Britannica begins publication in Edinburgh. It appears in weekly instalments under the editorship of William Smellie.
Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in what is now Waterloo.
Laurence Sterne publishes A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.


International

Captain James Cook leads his first expedition to the Pacific from Plymouth, heading for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus.
Boston citizens refuse to quarter British troops amidst growing unrest in the American colonies
Corsica is sold to France by the Republic of Genoa.

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Dr. Bill Johnston

20 December 2015, 16:11

This was republished as frontispiece in ESTC Citation No. T92902 An authentic detail of particulars relative to the late Duchess of Kingston. London : printed for G. Kearsley, 1788, with a new edition the same year.