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The castle spectre and her earnest admirer!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The castle spectre and her earnest admirer!
Description
English: A woman in white draperies stands in profile to the left, her right arm raised in a commanding gesture above a young man in regimentals who kneels opposite her, looking at her through an eye-glass in a manner both appraising and deferential. 14 March 1798
Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 360 millimetres
Width: 398 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.897
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Mrs. Powell took the name-part in M. G. Lewis's popular 'Castle Spectre', first played at Drury Lane on 14 Dec. 1797. Genest, vii. 332. Her admirer is evidently Prince Ernest. See BMSat 9439. Reproduced, Paston, pl. lxxvii.

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Ruth Hayward (personal communication, July 2012) suggests that the woman is not an actress but Charlotte Nugent, who was Prince Ernest's mistress in 1798 (in fact from 1794-1813), and ten years earlier had been the mistress of his brother, the Prince of Wales. In 1788 she had been a widow, Charlotte Johnstone, but she re-married in 1790. Her second husband was Captain (later Admiral) Charles Edmund Nugent. In 1799 she had a child, Georgina Nugent, brought up as the Admiral's child but actually the daughter of Prince Ernest.

Ms Hayward assumes that the "Castle" refers to Windsor Castle and the idea of a spectre includes the notion of a "revenant", i.e. here is this woman back again, but this time it is Ernest who is interested in her. The play was produced in Weymouth in 1798 for the royal family, after being staged at Drury Lane.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-897
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