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| Anonymous German printmaker after Anton Graff Portrait of Apollonia Helena Potocka ca. 1775 hand-colored lithograph British Museum |
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| Lavinia, Countess Spencer after Richard Cosway Portrait of Lavinia, Countess Spencer reading ca. 1785-1800 hand-colored etching British Museum |
Lavinia, Countess Spencer (1762-1831) – Eldest daughter of 1st Earl of Lucan. Wife of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer. Amateur artist.
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| Richard Brookshaw after Allan Ramsay George the III, King of Great Britain ca. 1773-79 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Richard Marshall after Allan Ramsay George-the-III-King-of-Great-Britain ca. 1760-70 hand-colored mezzotint British Museum |
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| Anonymous French printmaker after Claude-Louis Desrais L'Ami du peuple - Marat ca. 1790-95 hand-colored etching British Museum |
Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) – Revolutionary politician, physician, journalist and agitator. Born Boudry, Switzerland. Editor of L'Ami du Peuple (created September 1789). Murdered by Charlotte Corday (13 July 1793) and celebrated as a martyr of the French Revolution. At first buried in the garden of the Club des Cordeliers, his remains were transferred into the Pantheon (21 September 1794) in great pomp, before being moved to the cemetery of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (8 February 1795).
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| Anonymous French printmaker after Joseph Boze Louis Seize, Roi des Franceais 1792 hand-colored etching British Museum |
"This is an altered version of a plate engraved at an earlier date as a conventional portrait (ca. 1785). The added Phrygian cap and the last line of the lettered inscription, also a later addition, pointedly allude to the events that occurred on 20 June 1792, when Louis XVI was forced to wear the cap following the invasion of the Tuileries palace. The title has been altered from Roi de France et de Navarre to Roi des Franceais, reflecting the decision of the Assemblée Nationale on 19 October 1789 to change the King's title."
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| Paul-André Basset (publisher) Voltaire (at writing-table between laurel trees) ca. 1793 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Alexander Beugo (publisher) Portrait of Charles Cranmer (Royal Academy porter and model) ca. 1770-80 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| James Gillray Mendoza (portrait of boxer Daniel Mendoza) 1788 etching and aquatint British Museum |
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| James Gillray A Dash up St James's Street (Capt. Francis Cunynghame in Light Horse uniform, Coldstream Guards) 1797 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| John Thornthwaite after James Roberts Mr. Mattocks in the Character of Achilles 1777 hand-colored etching and engraving (from Bell's British Theatre) British Museum |
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| Anonymous English printmaker Mrs Siddons ca. 1790 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Anonymous English printmaker Mrs Elizabeth Brownrigg (midwife hanged for murder of her apprentice) 1767 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Anonymous English printmaker Baron Frédéric Trenck in prison ca. 1753-60 hand-colored woodcut British Museum |
Baron Frédéric Trenck (1726-1794) – Officer in Prussian army. 1745, imprisoned by Frederick II of Prussia but escaped a year later. 1753 recaptured and imprisoned for ten years in Magdeburg. 1787, wrote an autobiography which was widely translated and brought his story to public attention. 1794, in Paris as an observer of the French Revolution on behalf of the Austrian government, guillotined.
– descriptive and biographical notes from the British Museum