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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

[Right Honble Edmund Burke] / [W. Ridley sculpr.]

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William Ridley
1764-1838

[Right Honble Edmund Burke] / [W. Ridley sculpr.]

Published

[London] : [Vernor & Hood?], [1796]

stipple engraving
image: 86 x 70 mm (oval) plate mark: 221 x 153 mm; sheet: 236 x 169 mm
Peel 3171
Notes
Title from lettered impression.
Impression before letters of a stipple engraving Issued as an illustration in: Junius (London : Printed by T. Bensley, for Vernor and Hood, 1796), volume 2, page 226 (facing).
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Oval portrait of Edmund Burke almost half-length directed to left, looking down, wearing a dark coat, waistcoat, plain white cravat, spectacles and hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints