BIB_ID
460047
Accession number
MA 176 E70
Creator
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; image: 207 x 246 mm; sheet 250 x 246 mm
Notes
Printmaker Joshua Baldrey occasionally operated from 19 Holborn in London, under the imprint "S. Doughty & Co." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Published as a companion print to George no. 7264.
In upper left corner: Plate 2.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark. NNPM
Published as a companion print to George no. 7264.
In upper left corner: Plate 2.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Print shows Warren Hastings, in profile to the right, wheeling a barrow in which sit George III and Thurlow, wearing his Chancellor's wig and gown; Hastings wears oriental dress: a jewelled turban, loose trousers, and cloak, and cries as he wheels his "wares": H-st--ngs ho, rare H-st--ngs!
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