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Monsr le Dupe

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Monsr le Dupe

Published

[England?] : [publisher not specified], [approximately 1756]

etching
sheet: 92 x 63 mm
Peel 2627
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed to image border.
A much reduced and reversed version of a design issued in "A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757" and "England's remembrancer: or, a humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas"; see BM Satires 3504 and 3505.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A portrait of the Duke of Newcastle as a Knave from a deck of cards (the "pip" designating him as the Knave of Spades is absent in this copy of the design), in profile to the left; three fleurs-de-lis, indicating his alleged subserviency to French counsels, are placed like flowers growing from the ground at his feet.

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