1-624-658 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Contemplations upon a coronet', 1797. Caricature of the actress Elizabeth Farren (c1759-1829) who became Countess of Derby. She admires a coronet on a stand. Also on her dressing table is a genealogical chart of British nobility. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).