'The nabob rumbled or a Lord Advocates amusement' (Captain Rumbold; Sir Thomas Rumbold; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville)
1 portrait of Sir Thomas Rumbold
'The nabob rumbled or a Lord Advocates amusement' (Captain Rumbold; Sir Thomas Rumbold; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville)
by James Gillray, published by Elizabeth d'Achery
hand-coloured etching, published 21 January 1783
7 3/8 in. x 8 5/8 in. (187 mm x 218 mm) plate size; 7 7/8 in. x 9 in. (201 mm x 229 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D12317
Sittersback to top
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Statesman. Sitter associated with 82 portraits. Identify
- Sir Thomas Rumbold (1736-1791), Indian administrator. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- William Richard Rumbold (1760-1786), Captain. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Artistsback to top
- Elizabeth d'Achery (active 1782), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits.
- James Gillray (1756-1815), Caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 887 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
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Events of 1783back to top
Current affairs
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne resigns as Prime Minister over the proposed peace terms with the United States. Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford briefly forms a government with Charles James Fox in April but is succeeded by a government under William Pitt the Younger who, at the age of 24 becomes the youngest British Prime Minister ever to take office.The highwayman John Austin is the last person to be publicly executed at Tyburn.
Art and science
Physician and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin begins publication of A System of Vegetables, a translation from Latin of the work of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in which he coins many common English names of plants.International
Defeat of Charles James Fox's India Bill in the House of Lords which aimed to assist ailing British East India Company.American War of Independence: Treaty of Paris is signed by Britain, France, Spain and the United States, under which the British government recognises US independence. Britain begins to evacuate loyalists and the last British troops leave New York City three months later.
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Martin Hopkinson
24 August 2018, 12:29
Romney's portrait of him is in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow