James Sharples Pastel Portrait Drawing Circa.1800 Frankenstien Hand coloured satirical etching depicting

Hand coloured satirical etching depicting George the Fourth standing on clouds of decency and decorum holding a sack of slander his face obscured by a crescent moon inscribed Caroline

looking for work and making inexpensive copies from the original portraits they had made of popular and well-known figures

25 cms high

combined with the black feather in her hair it may perhaps be a reference to her passing

Circle of GB Cipriani R

James Sharples Pastel Portrait Drawing Circa.1800 Frankenstien Hand coloured satirical etching depictingJames Sharples 1751 1811. Anglo American School Portrait of a lady in profile, inscribed 'James Sharples Bath' (to backboard). Pastel. 23 x 17. 5 (oval image). 30. 5 by 25. 5 cms. Overall in period gilt gesso frame. Provenance: With Trim Bridge Galleries Bath. Sharples was a successful portrait painter mainly in pastels, born in Lancashire ca. 1751. Reputedly a pupil of George Romney. He began exhibiting at Liverpool in 1774 and at the Royal Academy