Epithalamia Oxoniensia sive gratulationes in augustissimi regis Georgii III. et illustrissimae principissae Sophiae Charlottae nuptias auspicatissimas

1761
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  • Title: Epithalamia Oxoniensia sive gratulationes in augustissimi regis Georgii III. et illustrissimae principissae Sophiae Charlottae nuptias auspicatissimas
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press (British, Oxford)
  • Author: Written by poets associated with Oxford University
  • Author: Joseph Spence (British, Kingsclere, Hampshire 1699–1768 Byfleet, Surrey)
  • Author: James Merrick (British, 1720–1769)
  • Author: Thomas Warton (British, Basingstoke, Hampshire 1728–1790 Trinity College, Oxford)
  • Artist: Frontispiece attributed to Johann Sebastian Müller (German, Nuremberg 1715–1790 London)
  • Subject of book: Poems celebrate marriage of George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland (British, London 1738–1820 Windsor)
  • Subject of book: Poems celebrate marriage of Charlotte, Queen of England (1744–1818)
  • Date: 1761
  • Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
  • Object Number: 41.100.38
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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