Kit-Cat Club
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The Kit-Cat Club was an early 18th-century English club in London with strong political and literary associations. Members of the club were committed Whigs. They met at the Trumpet Tavern in London an
The Trumpet, Shire Lane, Temple Bar, in 1778
Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Kneller's kit-cat portrait
Mezzotint title page from the Kit Cat Club portraits by John Faber the Younger, 1735. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century # 208. British Museum
Mezzotint portrait of Jacob Tonson by John Faber the Younger after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1733. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century # 208.43. British Museum
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who
Kit-Cat Club
…were drunk to the honour of a reigning beauty, or lady to whom the Club wished to do particular honour. We know by name some of those who were toasted: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Lady Godolphin, Lady Sunderland, Lady Bridgewater, and Lady Monthermer, all daughters of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, except Lady Mary…
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Mary Wortley Montagu with her son Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Mary Wortley Montagu, by Charles Jervas, after 1716
Memorial to the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu erected in Lichfield Cathedral by Henrietta Inge