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A portrait of Sir George Savile, seated at a table by a window, engraved & etched by James Basire after a painting by Benjamin Wilson (1721–1788). Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet of Thornhill FRS, was an English politician who was the Member of Parliament for Yorkshire from 1759 to 1783. Sir George, pictured here in his prime, is resting his hand on a map of the Calder Navigation near to the seat of his lineal ancestors, the Marquesses of Halifax in West Yorkshire. The Calder Navigation, a significant waterway project in the north of England, was one of Savile's most notable achievements. In the early eighteenth century, the Calder River was an obstacle for the transportation of goods between the industrial centres of the north and the ports of the east coast.
Title
Sir George Saville (1726–1784)
Date
1770
Medium
engraving on paper
Measurements
H 47 x W 34 cm
Accession number
AE185.574
Work type
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