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Lord R-b-h / etch'd by a Lady.
[place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1781?]
etching
image: 108 x 87 mm; sheet: 115 x 90 mm
Peel 1630
Notes
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Date from British Museum catalog; George tentatively identifies the subject of this caricature as the Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), noted as a collector of rare books and broadside ballads.
Date from British Museum catalog; George tentatively identifies the subject of this caricature as the Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), noted as a collector of rare books and broadside ballads.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Bust portrait of a young man in profile to the right much caricatured. He has a large aquiline nose, large eye, receding forehead and chin, long thin neck, and sloping shoulders. Cf. George.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Classification
Department
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