Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough, John Hoppner, Sir Henry Raeburn, and other artists. (1900)
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery · Birmingham : Printed at the Guild Press · leaf 181
of C. J.Fox {see No. 5 i) in the Westminster election of 1784, when she was broughtinto contact with Viscount Hood {see No. 4). Most of the pretty womenin London are indefatigable in making interest for him, the Duchess ofDevonshire in particular. I am ashamed to say how coarsely she has… … In addition to the external advantages : received from nature and fortune, she possessed an ardent temper jv.,v-, >:b!e of deep as well as strongimpressions; a cultivated understanding, illuminated by a taste for poetryand the fine arts ; much sensibility, not exempt, perhaps from vanity…
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