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Regum et reginarum hi sunt gloriosissimi gestus
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image: 180 x 230 mm; sheet: 185 x 240 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1627
Published:
[London] : Published as the Act directs, for Charles Stalker, No. 4 Stationers Court, May 21st 1788.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Print produced as a frontispiece plate for Herbert Croft's The wreck of Westminster Abbey, alias The year two thousand, alias The ordeal of sepulchral candour (London : Charles Stalker, 1788).
Title at foot of print with imprint beneath; at lower left: For a description see the next leaf to the Title'.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows two emblematical tombstones, one of George III (left), the other of Queen Charlotte (right). At the apex of each is an oval medallion with profile heads facing each other. Below is a scene representing their respective occupations. Below this again is an inscription in an oval. Arranged round each stone are eight small circles containing emblems. Cf. BM Satires.
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