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Description: | Mezzotint. This mezzotint print shows a meeting of the Derby Cabinet in the Cabinet Office, Downing Street, in 1867. It was made after a painting by Henry Gales. Gales’ work is reportedly based on a design by John Gilbert. The Prints and Drawings Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum have a similar mezzotint, which is described in their catalogue as engraved by ‘J. Scott, after H. Gales and J. Gilbert’.
In January 1869 the 'Liverpool Mercury' reported that: 'The subject is in process of engraving by Messrs. Graves, the well-known printsellers of London, and Mr. Grindley of this town.' A watercolour version by Gales was lent by Baroness Kinloss to the ‘Victorian Era’ exhibition of 1897 and is now in the collection of National Portrait Gallery, London. This watercolour is probably the painting which was exhibited in Liverpool and Dublin in 1869. | Subjects: | 1st Baron Hampton | Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister 19th century costume male portrait carpet 6th Earl of Mayo | Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley 1st Earl of Cranbrook | John Somerset Pakington Chancellor of the Exchequer and 1st Duke of Gordon | Richard Grenville 6th Duke of Richmond frock coat 6th Duke of Lennox ink pot/ink stand fireplace state interior painting trousers group portrait clock table 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos waistcoat portrait bookcase Richard Southwell Bourke chair 14th Earl of Derby | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy Earl of Beaconsfield | Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox Member of Parliament | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Henry Gales | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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