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

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Some Old Time Beauties, by Thomson Willing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Author: Thomson Willing Release Date: June 16, 2005 [eBook #16079] Language: en Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME OLD TIME BEAUTIES*** E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) [1]Cover SOME OLD TIME BEAUTIES AFTER PORTRAITS BY THE ENGLISH MASTERS, WITH EMBELLISHMENT AND COMMENT BY THOMSON WILLING BOSTON JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY MDCCCXCV Contents CONTENTS PAGE GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE 3 Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough MARY, HONORABLE MRS. GRAHAM 15 Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough. EMMA, LADY HAMILTON 25 Portrait by George Romney. MRS. SHERIDAN 37 Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. MARGUERITE, COUNTESS BLESSINGTON 51 Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. MARY ISABELLA, DUCHESS OF RUTLAND 65 Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. LAVINIA, COUNTESS SPENCER 77 Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF HAMILTON 89 Portrait by Catharine Read. MARIA, COUNTESS OF COVENTRY 101 Portrait by Gavin Hamilton.