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John Stockdale
Frontispiece / Design'd at Brookes's ; Executed at St. James's Palace.
Published
[London?] : [J. Stockdale?], [1784]
etching
image: 159 x 119 mm; sheet: 185 x 131 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3255
Notes
Title from item.
Statement of responsibility, and source of frontispiece from BM Satires.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke : selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke ... (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
Statement of responsibility, and source of frontispiece from BM Satires.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke : selected from their speeches, from the year 1770, down to the present time. With a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public. With a frontispiece of Fox, North, and Burke ... (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Fox, North, and Burke chain and blindfold the British Lion who wears a royal crown. Fox (left) stoops to put the chain round his neck. North (centre) kneels placing a bandage over his eyes. Burke (right) stands holding the chain, a key, and a padlock. In the background stands Pitt, holding the hand of Britannia who, contrary to custom, wears a feathered hat. Behind him the (rising) sun, half below the horizon, a face in its disk, sends out rays. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Associated names
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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