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Monsr Sure Card
Published
[England?] : [publisher not specified], [approximately 1756]
etching
image: 90 x 60 mm; sheet: 92 x 254 mm
Peel 2632b
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy is printed on a single sheet with three additional satrirical prints, arranged side by side horizontally and trimmed within plate mark (see Peel 2632a-d).
A much reduced and reversed version of a design issued as "Monsr Surecard" 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 3506 and 3507.
Library's copy is printed on a single sheet with three additional satrirical prints, arranged side by side horizontally and trimmed within plate mark (see Peel 2632a-d).
A much reduced and reversed version of a design issued as "Monsr Surecard" 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 3506 and 3507.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A portrait of Mr. Fox, afterwords Lord Holland, as a Knave from a deck of cards (the heart identifying him as the Knave of Hearts is absent in this copy of the design), in profile to the right; with a fleurs-de-lis, indicating his alleged subserviency to French counsels, placed like a flower growing from the ground at his feet.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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