| Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 páginas
...to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Stewards face as well done as ever I saw anything in my whole...it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. 27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, and by water down to Woolwich, I being at... | |
| Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 498 páginas
...persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little,...it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. 27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, and by water down to Woolwich, I being at... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 páginas
...persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little,...it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. 27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, and by water down to Woolwich, I being at... | |
| 1875 - 556 páginas
...Waller's verses on this medal. "1666-7, Feb. 25. — At my goldsmiths did observe the king's new medal!, where in little there is Mrs. Stewart's face as well...the prices. Those with the Britannia are as follows : £ id The Great Brittannia, with Felicitas Brittaniae . 4 ю о The New Brittanrm, with Nullum numen... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 522 páginas
...persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little,...it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. 27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, and by water down to Woolwich, I being at... | |
| British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals - 1881 - 224 páginas
...King's new medall where in little there is Mrs. Stewart's face as well done as ever I saw any thing in my whole life, I think : and a pretty thing it...should choose her face to represent Brittannia by." Mrs. Stuart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, was one of the beauties at the court of Charles II. (See... | |
| British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals, Herbert Appold Grueber - 1881 - 224 páginas
...King's new medall where in little there is Mrs. Stewart's face as well done as ever I saw any thing in my whole life, I think : and a pretty thing it...should choose her face to represent Brittannia by." Mrs. Stuart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, was one of the beauties at the court of Charles II. (See... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 376 páginas
...persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where, in little,...it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. 2 /th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, and by water down to Woolwich, I being... | |
| Edward Hawkins - 1885 - 770 páginas
...time. Pepys, in his Diary, under date 25 Feb. 1667, in speaking of this medal, says: "At my goldsmith's did observe the King's new medall, where in little...it is that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by." (See No. 195.) The legend on the edge was probably a later addition, and may record... | |
| 1887 - 374 páginas
...afterwards Duchess of Eichmond, he made a miniature of her face — " as well done," says Pepys, " as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think,...it is that he should choose her face to represent Britannia." It is upon record that Britannia was first represented thus by the Romans upon some of... | |
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