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Woodford Rice
[Woodford Rice Esq.]
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1783]
etching with engraving & stipple engraving
image: 230 x 190 mm; plate mark: 235 x 195 mm; sheet: 246 x 202 mm
Peel 2318
Notes
Title and publication date from George.
Print issued as a frontispiece to Woodford Rice's The Rutland volunteer influenza'd, or, A receipt to make a patriot, a soldier, or a poet (London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1783).
Library's copy ...
Print issued as a frontispiece to Woodford Rice's The Rutland volunteer influenza'd, or, A receipt to make a patriot, a soldier, or a poet (London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1783).
Library's copy ...
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A man in a coat with military facings, identified as Woodford Rice, stands in the middle of a room holding in his left hand a book open to the title page, "The Rutland Volunteers," and with a frontispiece that is a copy of this print. In the background, a military hat and a sword lie on a chair, together with a table with writing materials on it. Above the table hangs a plan depicting General Burgoyne's position against the French and Spanish armies at Villa Vellia Ford in 1762 where Captain Rice distiguished himself in the battle.
Associated names
Illustration for (work): Rice, Woodford, -1784. Rutland volunteer influenza'd.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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