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George Moutard Woodward
approximately 1760-1809
Ghost of Mirabeau's address to the London Revolution Society!!! A new ballad to an old tune
etching with letterpress
image: 173 x 142 mm; sheet: 355 x 218 mm
Peel 1678
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
With eight verses printed in letterpress in two columns.
Mirabeau had died earlier in 1791. The letterpress is the supposed speech of his ghost to the Revolution Society, originally set up to commemorate the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but which also celebrated the storming of the Bastille with an annual dinner at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, London, on 14 July.
Library's copy trimmed at head and foot of sheet.
Summary:
Half length portrait of an old man, full face, grinning with a fixed stare. He wears a bonnet rouge (in the form of a fool's cap) with a cockade.
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