Book/Printed Material Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory account of the origin of the association:
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Image 1 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … ats A i dena mwkmmmeur mm x J A Yo RE a 8 2x 3 B i Se ee TE SIR CODFRE KNELLER 2
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 4 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory …
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 5 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 9 ROSENWALD O b 0 3 Ww i A id 4 pr
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 6 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory …
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 7 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … IMORRELL BINDER LONDON
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 8 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory …
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 9 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 18 foe 54 lo â
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 10 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … mua mn ms MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED PERSONS COMPOSING THE KITCAT CLUB WITH A PREFATORY ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE ASSOCIATION FORTYEIGHT PORTRAITS FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 11 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … f ChanceryLane London
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 12 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … ADVERTISEMENT History is the grouping of figures in a picture the humbler pro vince of biography s the delineation of the whole length resemblance of a particular ndividual But it sometimes happens…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 13 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … a EE 11 ADVERTISEMENT cular portraiture of the individuals of whom it treats In some in stances however our materials have been so scanty that our notices have been restricted to a…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 14 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … INTRODUCTION THE celebrated association entitled the KirCat CLUB was insti tuted about the year 1700 and consisted of the principal noblemen and gentlemen âwho opposed the arbitrary measures of James lI and…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 15 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 1v INTRODUCTION cookâs in Shire Lane near Temple Bar entitled CHRISTOPHER Cat The dinners and suppers upon which this person ban quetted his illustrious guests were composed for the most part of…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 16 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … INTRODUCTION vy To the standard dish of the society Christopher Catâs mutton pies we have many allusions in the various literature of the day Dr King in his  Art of Cookeryâ…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 17 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … vi INTRODUCTION â Whence deathless KiTCAT took its name Few critics can unriddle Some say from pastrycook it came And some from Cat and Fiddle 2 From no trim beaus its name…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 18 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … INTRODUCTION vii expressed a great desire of having one meeting next Winter if you came to town not as a club but as old friends that have been of a club and…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 19 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … viii INTRODUCTION brugh â34 William Congreve Esq â35 Joseph Addison Esq â306 Sir Samuel Garth â37 Sir Richard Steele â38 Arthur Maynwaring Esq â30 George Stepney Esq â40 Francis Earl of Godolphin…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 20 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … a CONTENTS Sir GODFREY KNELLER CHARLES SEYMOUR Duke of Somerset CuarLes LEN0X Duke of Richmond CuarLEs Fitzroy Duke of Grafton WiLLiaMm CAVENDISH Duke of Devonshire Jorn CHurcHILL Duke of Marlborough Joun MonTAGUE…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 21 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … X XXIV XXV XXVI âXXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX â XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI âXXXVIL XXXVIII XXXIX XI XL1 XLII Xian  XLV âXLV ÂXLVI  XLVII âXLVIII CONTENTS SPENCER CompTON…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 22 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … TR Em NT RE on rm b 3
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 23 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … _â Cooper salp FR BART Gada A IY J IR GODFREY J S
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 24 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … Sir Godfrey Kneller This celebrated painter was born at Lubeck in the Duchy of Holstein about the year 1648 His father Zachary Kuneller who was principal surveyor to that city originally destined…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 25 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 2 SIR GODFREY KNELLER Although Knueller appears to have studied so carefully the different styles of the painters who preceded and were contemporary with him and more or less to have profited…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 26 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … SIR GODFREY KNELLER 3 the remotest intention of taking up his residence here altogether Soon after his arrival he had the good fortune to be introduced to the Duke of Monmouth who…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 27 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 4 SIR GODFREY KNELLER lying in state several days his body was buried at Witton near Hampton Court A monument executed by Rysbrack according to the directions of Sir Godfrey and for…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 28 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … SIR GODFREY KNELLER 5 trait painter it seems as aukward and illadapted as the coronal of the Farnesian Hercules would be if placed upon the beautiful but compara tively diminutive brow of…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 29 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … li 1S 1 BF LH 1 EE ââââââ 6 SIR GODFREY KNELLER He had a country house at Witton near Hampton Court and acted there in the commission of the peace for…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 30 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … SIR GODFREY KNELLER 7 to fame he sacrificed twenty to lucreâ There is much reason in these remarks for it is a notorious fact that whilst some of Knellerâs pictures would do…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 31 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 8 SIR GODFREY KNELLER defect may however in a certain degree be accounted for The singular style of dress peculiar to the age in which he lived and so pertinaciously attended to…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 32 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory …
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 33 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … SEYMOUR NE DUKE OF SOMERSET 2 o i hi bs AH i wt Ee Ss me or I Po Se FT Ss ee em i a oo âââ
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 34 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … II Charles Seymour DUKE OF SOMERSET CHARLES SEYMOUR commonly called the proud Duke of Somerset on account of his magnificent and stately manner of living as well as his ex treme haughtiness…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 35 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 10 CHARLES SEYMOUR On April 8th 1684 his Grace was admitted a knight of the most noble order of the Garter and upon the demise of Charles II on the sixth of…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 36 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … DUKE OF SOMERSET 11 Jamess Palace and after ordering the driver to shoot the rubbish he stalked back indignantly to Northumberland House accompanied by the same cavalcade in precisely the form in…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 37 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 4 y 12 CHARLES SEYMOUR It was raised on a square pedestal and habited after the manner of Vandyck with ensigns of the Garter in the Senate House of the University of…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 38 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … DUKE OF SOMERSET 13 might naturally be expected often influenced his conduct to the prejudice of all the better qualities of his heart Being a Roman Catholic and the first peer of…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 39 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 1 i i 1 E18 id ERE IE Ei WEY A THE 4 q RAE ii Ba 14 Â A 2 3 p a3 4 i Hid i âER iA HE Bp…
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
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Image 40 of Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory … 1
- Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Caulfield, James
- Date: 1821
About this Item
Title
- Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat club : with a prefatory account of the origin of the association:
Names
- Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
- Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723
- Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : Hurst, Robinson, 1821.
Headings
- - Kit-Cat Club (London, England)
- - Great Britain--Biography--Portraits
Notes
- - LC copy has bookplate of William Bates: "Gulielmi Bates ... Edgbastoniae, 1885."
- - Copy 2: Imperfect, lacks dedication. Errata slip after p. x. Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth out of place (at p. 160 instead of 152)
- - Copy 4: Autograph Mss Rosenwalk Coll.
- - Inserted is a printed order to pay, completed by hand for 200 to Edward Russell or his assigns, among them Sir Godfrey Kneller. with his endorsement and signature, 16 March 1699.
- - LAC snh 2019-03-26 update (1 card)
Medium
- x, 261 p. : ports. ; 37 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DA687.K6 C3
- DA687.K6 C3 Copy 2
- DA687.K6 C3 Copy 4
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 10019532
OCLC Number
- 1669769
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- online text
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Contributor
- Caulfield, James
- Kneller, Godfrey
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)