2-705-191 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'William Fitz-Maurice Petty, First Marquis of Lansdowne', c1766, (early-mid 19th century). Portrait of Irish-born British Whig statesman William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805) in ermine robes. Petty was the first Home Secretary in 1782, and Prime Minister in 1782-1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence. Engraving after a painting made in 1766, in the National Portrait Gallery, London. [The London Printing and Publishing Company, London]