Title

Letter from George II to Thomas Pellam-Holles, 4th June 1757.Artist: King George II

Caption

Letter from George II to Thomas Pellam-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, 4th June 1757. Letter on Thomas Pellam-Holles' negotiations for forming a ministry, which ended in his return to office as First Lord of the Treasury, with William Pitt as Secretary of State and his rival Henry Fox, as Paymaster-General of the Forces. From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V. (London, 1899).
The Print Collector collection

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C17_266

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50.0Mo (2.9Mo) / 34.7cm x 36.1cm / 4101 x 4261 (300dpi)

Keywords

people politics monarch letter color colour king royal century handwriting royalty georgian correspondence signature manuscript politician facsimile 18th century Eighteenth Century statesman The Print Collector First Lord of the Treasury sovereign photograph Thomas Duke of Duke of Newcastle Thomas Pelham-Holles Pelham-Holles Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme Duke of Newcastle Newcastle King George II Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg George II King of Britain and Ireland Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Hanover George II Augustus King of Britain Thomas Pelham-Holles photograph