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Scrub & Archer / IB.

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John Boyne
approximately 1750-1810

Scrub & Archer / IB.

Published

London : Publish'd as the Act Directs Ap 25 1783 by I Boyne N° 2 Shoe Lane Fleet St, [1783]

etching with engraving
image: 185 x 176 mm; plate mark: 213 x 202 mm; sheet: 225 x 199 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2452
Notes
Title etched below image.
Print reissued with the imprint of W. Humphrey, dated August 1, 1783.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

In imitation of a scene from Act 3 of Farquhar's "The beaux' stratagem," Charles Fox as Scrub, and Lord North as Archer, sit in close conference discussing Perdita's infidelity while Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) as Gipsey, watches them standing behind their chairs. On the wall hangs the portrait of Col. Tarleton, with whom she was involved.

Associated names
Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints