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The wild goose chase
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [17--]
etching
image: 5 1/16 x 3 inches (128 x 76 mm); sheet: 5 5/16 x 3 5/16 inches (135 x 84 mm)
Peel 1235
Notes
Below image: Wilt thou, I say, forever play the fool? De Gard, be wise, and, Savoy, go to school.
An illustration for John Fletcher's The wild-goose chase, act 3, scene i.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
An illustration for John Fletcher's The wild-goose chase, act 3, scene i.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A man, dressed in colonial wear, stands in front of 2 pillars and a building in the street poking and addressing another man who is looking angry downwards; a woman and two men look solemn in the background.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
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