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Thomas Bonnor
Edmund Burke Esqr. : the British Cicero / T. Bonnor sculp.
Published
[London] : [London magazine], [1770]
etching
image: 129 x 106 mm; sheet: 139 x 109 mm
Peel 3180
Notes
Title from item.
Print issued as an illustration in the London Magazine, volume 39, April, 1770, page 174 (facing).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print issued as an illustration in the London Magazine, volume 39, April, 1770, page 174 (facing).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Circular portrait of Edmund Burke, half length, looking to the right, wearing a dark coat, waistcoat, plain white collar with frill, with hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue, holding Magna Carta on his left hand, with a statue of Cicero visible in the background at right; in ornamental suspended frame.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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