Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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January 07
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1796 Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales was born. She was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later to become King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather King George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom, but she died following childbirth at the age of 21. There followed a fierce battle for the throne of Great Britain ending with the succession of Queen Victoria.
In 1830 Sir Thomas Lawrence died. He was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. Hewas a child prodigy, born in Bristol he began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA (Princess, 1796-1817, only daughter of George IV, wife of Leopold I, King of the Belgians, her death in childbirth resulted in the succession of Queen Victoria)
AN in the third person to ‘Mr de B.’, written in curved lines in her characteristic hand, asking him “to procure & send as soon as he can a novel by Kotzebue called Léontin [Leontine, 1808] or some name of that sort H R H has no doubt but that Mr de B. will know what book it is & what she means”, 1 side 7½” x 7½”, Warwick House, “Tuesday Evening” no date, c. 1815
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LAWRENCE (Sir Thomas, 1769-1830, Portrait Painter, President of the Royal Academy)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My Lord’ Holland saying that he will be “happy to receive Lady Holland and your Lordship at Four O'clock tomorrow at Buckingham House, the only approach to which is now from the Pimlico Gate, down Grosvenor Place ...” explaining that he is about to leave town and so cannot accept an invitation because of “pressing business and fix’d engagements ... My ‘good Works’ must be still postponed and the ‘Profession of Faith’ remain with your Lordship ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Russell Square, Sunday noon, no date,
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