BIB_ID
460052
Accession number
MA 177 E2
Creator
Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838, etcher.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet: 434 x 432 mm (trimmed)
Notes
After Thomas Stothard.
Parallel title and caption text in English and French; the individuals represented are identified below the image.
With a six line "Explanation" in English and French at foot of sheet.
The kneeling figure at right, identified here as "Mr. Frances", is identified in the British Museum online catalog as Lord Cornwallis.
Library's copy is closely trimmed and cropped at bottom of sheet, with the loss of the caption title and six line "Explanation" in English and French at foot of sheet. NNPM
Parallel title and caption text in English and French; the individuals represented are identified below the image.
With a six line "Explanation" in English and French at foot of sheet.
The kneeling figure at right, identified here as "Mr. Frances", is identified in the British Museum online catalog as Lord Cornwallis.
Library's copy is closely trimmed and cropped at bottom of sheet, with the loss of the caption title and six line "Explanation" in English and French at foot of sheet. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as Liberty, the staff of Liberty in her right hand, indicating with her left portrait medallions depicting Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox and Richard Sheridan suspended on a pillar; to left, Viscountess Duncannon, posing as Clio, muse of history; at right, a figure identified as "Mr. Frances" [i.e. Philip Francis?] kneels in the company of Munny Begum, Cheyt Sing, and the Rajah of Banares.
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