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Protheus on privileges / Annibal Scratch fecit.

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Samuel Collings

Protheus on privileges / Annibal Scratch fecit.

Published

[London] : Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co., Feby. 1st 1791.

etching and stipple engraving
image: 148 x 96 mm; sheet: 164 x 101 mm
Peel 1698
Notes
Identity of printmaker suggested by George.
Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 177.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Horne Tooke stands in profile to the left trampling on the mace of the House of Commons and holding out his hat. His left hand is thrust into his coat-pocket, from which projects a document: [West]minster Petition. Cf. George.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department