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From Wales / P.I. de Loutherbourg fecit.

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Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg
1740-1812

From Wales / P.I. de Loutherbourg fecit.

London : Pubd. by Willm Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, May 1st, 179[0?]
etching with drypoint
sheet 16 x 11 cm
Peel 1629
Notes
Restrike; originally issued in 1775.
From a series of six caricatures of "English types" by Loutherbourg, some of them evidently intended to represent notable individuals of the day.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Referred to under No. 5361 and 9684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows an unidentified man with prominent chin, standing in profile to right, head turned towards viewer, hands in pockets; with tricorn, waistcoat, jacket, breeches; possibly intended as a generic humorous depiction of a comic Welshman, although some of the individual subjects of the caricatures comprising this series have been identified. Cf. George no. 5361.

Associated names
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Classification
Department