Title

'A Thousand Warm Receptions in the North', 1823. Artist: Anon

Caption

'A Thousand Warm Receptions in the North', 1823. A court at Holyroodhouse during George IV's Northern Excursion, August 1822. The King, in Highland costume, is rising to kiss a lady; ladies waiting to be presented are grouped on the right; Sir William Curtis, in a very short kilt, is leading forward the next lady to be presented.

Date

1823

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B00_465

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

21,6Mb (1,5Mb) / 10,9in x 7,7in / 3274 x 2308 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people male interior indoors court man men fashion country law monarch guy costume kissing clothes British headdress color colour king Scotland royal palace dress kilt location SCOTTISH century platform monarchy Britain inside presenting clothing royalty Edinburgh lady ruler georgian tartan headgear dais 19th century throne law court nineteenth century Scots speech bubble Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Hanoverian sovereign TGN King George IV Sir William Curtis King of Great Britain Holyrood Palace highland dress etching caricature satire Holyroodhouse Anon Anonymous William Curtis Prince of Wales Sir William George IV Prince Regent Prinny Prinnie William Curtis