D E SCRIPT OF THE ION PICTURE OF THE DEATH OF THE LATE EARL OF CHATHAM. ThE^ Pidure reprefents that point of time, when the late Earl of Chatham received in the Houfe of Lords, the fatal ftroke, which put a period to his IHuftrious life. His three fons, and his fon-in-law, (Lord Vifcount Mahon) being prefent fyround their dying father, who is Supported by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, and his Grace the Duke of Portland. His Grace the Duke of KiCHMOND,^ IS reprefented Handing near the Earl of Chatham, having, iuft concluded his Speech, holding a paper in his hand, marked with the fubjed in Debate ; and m an attitude, expreffive of the calamitous and unexpeded event which had taken place oa the noble Earl,, in the moment he was rifing to reply This groupe, which forms the principal one of the Pidure, is enlarPed by the mtroduaioirof o Pkers, to nearly half the number containecHn the whole uJ^'. ^ ''"^ ^''''I^' '^'^ S'''' State ; and the third of the Right Reverend the Bishops, and other Peers. The Lord" Chancellor and tiie Judges are reprefented on the wooi-packs, and the Sons of Peers on th. Itepa- of the Throne.. The following is a Lift of the Portraits- No. 11. Lord George Germain 12. Lord North 13. Earl of Weftmorland 14. Lord Onflow 15. Lord Weftcote 16. Earl of Eglentoune 17. . Dr, HinchhlFe, Bilhop of Peter-- bo-rough 18. Dr. Shipley, Bifhop of St. Afaph 19. Dr. Markham, Arch-bilhop o-t.- York 20; Lord Chief Baron Skinner. 21. Earl of Mansheia No. I . Lord Cardiff ■ 2. Earl of Ferrers, then Honourable Mr. Shirley 3. -Lord Robert Bertie 4. Ear] Fauconberg 5. Duke of Montague 6. Lord Vifcount Moun^ Edgecumbe 7. Honourable Mr. Edg :umbe 8. Earl Waldeg rave 9. Lord Loughrorough, then Soli- citor-General 10. Lord Chancellor Thurlow, then Attorney-General ( ^ No. [ 2 2. Earl Bathurft, then Lord Clian- cellor 23. Earl Gower 24. Earl of Sandwich 25. Lord Amherft , 26. Earl of Dartmovith 27. Lord Vifcount Dudley and Ward . 28. Lord Scarfdale 29. Earl of Jerfey 30. Earl of Harcourt 31. Earl Cholmondeley 32. Lord Camden 33. Richard Brockle%, M, D. 34. Duke of Grafton 35. Duke of Manchefter 36. Lord Vifcount Courtenay 37. Earl of Coventry 38. Earl of Effingham No, 39. Honourable Mr, William Pitt 40. Lord Vifcount Mahon 41. Honoui'able Mr. James Pitt 42. Prefent Earl of Chatham 43. Duke of Devonfhire 44. Duke of Portland 45. His Royal Highnefs the DuKE of Cumberland 46. The late Earl of Chatham 47. Earl of Shelburne 48. Earl Temple 49. Earl of Radnor 50. Lord De Ferrers 5 1 . Duke of Richmond 52. Marquis of Rockingham 53. Earl Spencer 54. Earl Fitzwilliam 55. Earl of Befbo rough PROPOSALS For publishing, by SUBSCRIPTION, AN ENGRAVED PRINT, F R 0 M T H E ORIGINAL PICTURE, PAINTED BY JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, R. A. ELECT, REPRESENTING THE DEATH OF THE LATE EARL OF CHATHAM, TO BE ENGRAVED BY Mr. JOHN KEYSE SHERWIN. C 3 ) CONDITIONS. I. TpHE Dlmenfions of the Plate, 30 Inches wide, by 22i Inches high. II. Price to Subfcribers, Three Guineas, One Half to be paid at the Time of fubfcribing, the other Half on the delivery of the Print, are received at the in heiceJler-Fidds III. The Prints to be delivered in Two Years from Augujl next. IV. Subfcribers will have their Prints de- livered to them in the fame order their Names fhall be received. V. Price to Non-fubfcribers will be ad- vanced after the Publication, Exhibition Room, by Mr. Copley, at ; and by Mr. Boydell, Cheapjide^ and SUBSC RIPT IONS his Houfe, No. 12 no where elfe. When it is confidered, that this is the moft arduous work of the kind hitherto un- dertaken in any Country, that the uniting the value of living charafters to the dig- nity of an Hiftorical Fad ; an advantage that will be rifing in eftimation in every fucceeding age, and which no other Pifture extant has to boaft of in any degree equal to this; and that the expence of engraving a fubjed fo difficult, refulting from the great care neceffary to be employed in the exquifite finifhing of the feveral likeneffes, of which it is compofed, and on a plate of fo large dimenfions, will amount to nearly three times the fum ever given for one Plate, Mr. Copley flatters himfelf, that his terms will not be thought unreafonable ; and that a performance fo interefting to this country, and the prefent age, and fo valuable to pofterity, will receive the countenance and encouragement of a generous and difcerning Public. Nor can he urge farther pretenfions to public patronage, as they might befuppofed to originate in felf-commendation. Chearfully therefore he refts his plea on the luftre of the Charafter of the Great Statefman his Pencil has endeavoured to record ; on the fingularity of the Incident, Time and Place ; and laftly, on the high Dignity and diftinguifhed Abilities of the other noble Perfonages reprefented ; thefe he conceives are Circumftances fo favourable in themfelves, that they cannot but have their full force on the minds of ENGLISHMEN. 178 Received being One Half of the Subfeription for of the abovewentioned Prints which I promife to deliver according to the Propofah. ike Sum of 1 I ? t3 <9 o O > H o a Pi > H E3- o o w «0 w CO O H I— I O