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Tale of a tub
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1791?]
etching
image: 150 x 98 mm; plate mark: 169 x 116 mm; sheet: 179 x 125 mm
Peel 1710
Notes
Attribution to Collings suggested by George.
Library's copy lacks the Bentley imprint and caption included on the published print as issued as part of the "Political Portraiture" series in the Attic miscellany.
Etched plate also issued as plate number 3 of the series "Political Portraiture," appearing in the Attic Miscellany, with imprint and date: Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° Jany Ist 1791.
Library's copy lacks the Bentley imprint and caption included on the published print as issued as part of the "Political Portraiture" series in the Attic miscellany.
Etched plate also issued as plate number 3 of the series "Political Portraiture," appearing in the Attic Miscellany, with imprint and date: Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° Jany Ist 1791.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows Dr. Price preaching from a ramshackle tub inscribed "Political Gunpowder", his arms outstretched to the right; from his pocket projects a document inscribed "Revolution Toasts". His sermon hangs over the edge of the tub, the upper sheet headed "Bind the Kings with chains &c." The tub rests on a large book: Calculations (an allusion to Price's works on population and finance). Cf. George.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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