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John Chapman
active 1792-1823
Pizzarro / RS. Esq. 99 ; etch'd by J. Chapman.
[London] : Published Oct. 1, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterboro' Court, for the Anti Jacobin Review, [1799]
etching
image: 198 x 250 mm; sheet 207 x 251 mm
Peel 1840
Notes
Also attributed to Gillray. See Wright and Grego.
Two lines of text below image: In Pizzarro's plans observe the statesman's wisdom guides the poor mans [sic] heart ...
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, volume 4, p. 318.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark, with presumed loss of caption title and imprint.
Two lines of text below image: In Pizzarro's plans observe the statesman's wisdom guides the poor mans [sic] heart ...
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, volume 4, p. 318.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark, with presumed loss of caption title and imprint.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows Sheridan, dressed as the figure of Pizarro, from his melodrama of the same title, and bestriding the neck of the actor John Philip Kemble, whose large head, irradiated, flies through space diagonally towards the spectator. He is directed to the left, his cloak flies out behind him. Under his left arm are money-bags, in his right hand he holds out a document: Spoken before a select party of Friend's ...
Associated names
Whittle, T., active 1799, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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