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Title: Some Old Time Beauties
After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment

Author: Thomson Willing

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Language: en

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SOME OLD TIME BEAUTIES

After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment

by

THOMSON WILLING

Boston
Joseph Knight Company

MDCCCXCV

CONTENTS

GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough

MARY, HONORABLE MRS. GRAHAM
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

EMMA, LADY HAMILTON
Portrait by George Romney.

MRS. SHERIDAN
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

MARGUERITE, COUNTESS BLESSINGTON
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

MARY ISABELLA, DUCHESS OF RUTLAND
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

LAVINIA, COUNTESS SPENCER
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF HAMILTON
Portrait by Catharine Read.

MARIA, COUNTESS OF COVENTRY
Portrait by Gavin Hamilton.

ELIZABETH, COUNTESS GROSVENOR
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

[Illustration: GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE by GAINSBOROUGH]

HER GRACE OF DEVONSHIRE

The Dashing Duchess,--the impulsive, ebullient beauty whose smile
swayed ministers, and for whose favor princes were beggars! A
loveliness of manner, as of feature, such seductive color,--glowing
carnations,--and such golden-brown hair, with a fine figure, made up
an opulent personality, than which no more consummate type of beauty
has been preserved to us by painter or poet.