King George III in Coronation Robes. Plate 33 of Smart, Alastair, Allan Ramsay 1713-1785. Edinburgh, 1992.
Canvas, 98 1/4 x 64 1/8 in. (249.7x163cm). Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Copyright 1996 National Galleries of Scotland. The National Galleries of Scotland prohibits any form of reproduction, transmission, performance, display, rental, lending or storage of this image in any retrieval system without the written consent of the copyright holders. This image is reproduced in the Queen Charlotte Exhibit courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Wife of George III, from a painting by Allan Ramsay in the National Portrait Gallery. In: Greenwood, Alice Drayton. Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England. London, 1911, Frontispiece to v.2.
Plate I of A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies of the Kings and Queens of England; exemplified by that of their most Sacred Majesties King George the Third and Queen Charlotte: with all the other interesting proceedings connected with that magnificent festival. Edited by Richard Thomson. London, 1820.
The Holy Bible. London, 1756.
Contemporary leather embellished with the royal arms and the cipher of George III, with a tipped-in leaf identifying this as the Bible placed before "that most amiable Princess Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, at her coronation, Sep. 22nd, 1761."
On deposit, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Regalia used in the coronation of the English sovereign.
Plate IV of A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies of the Kings and Queens of England; exemplified by that of their most Sacred Majesties King George the Third and Queen Charlotte: with all the other interesting proceedings connected with that magnificent festival. Edited by Richard Thomson. London, 1820.
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