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S. W. Fores
The orators journey
[London] : Pubd Feby the 7 1785 by S.W. Fores N° 3. Piccadilly, [1785]
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image: 273 x 366 mm; sheet: 278 x 366 mm
Peel 3309
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print showing Charles James Fox, Mrs. Siddons, and Edmund Burke on a galloping horse beside a milestone inscribed "1 mile to perdition." Mrs. Siddons, as Lady Macbeth, holds a dagger in her right hand and a bowl in the left, saying, "That which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold." Behind them, right, pointing to the right, is a signpost, "To popularity."
Associated names
Fores, S. W,, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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