| Description | Group portrait showing the Duchess and Duke of Newcastle with their family, seated together. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle can be seen at towards the right edge of the image, next to her husband William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. The couple are shown alongside ten seated figures and two standing attendants, one adjusting a window and one standing behind the Duchess.
Margaret had no children herself, but William had five surviving children from his previous marriage to Elizabeth Howard (1599–1643). In this portrait they are joined by all five of these children and their respective spouses. The print includes a poem below used as prelude to Cavendish’s publication Nature's Pictures (1656).
Engraved after a drawing by Abraham Diepenbeeck (1596-1675). |
| InscriptionContent | Inscribed below: ‘Thus in this Semy-Circle wher they Sitt, / Telling of Tales of pleasures & of witt, / Heer you may read without a Sinn or Crime, / And how more innocently pass your tyme.’ ‘Abr, á Diepenbeke del.’ ‘Clouet sculp’ ‘The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and their Family.’ |