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John Stockdale
Frontispiece : [frontispiece to "The beauties of Fox, North and Burke"].
Published
[London?] : [J. Stockdale?], [1784]
etching
image: 124 mm (circular); sheet: 161 x 142 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3256
Notes
Title from item.
The design of this print was variously copied and reproduced, appearing along with another frontispiece design as part of a folding plate in The Beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke, issued the same year by Stockdale, and as a headpiece design for a broadside issued by Stockdale advertising the publication of The beauties of Fox, North and Burke in February of 1784.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties of Fox, North and Burke, selected from their speeches : from the passing of the Quebec Act, in the year 1774, down to the present time ; with a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
The design of this print was variously copied and reproduced, appearing along with another frontispiece design as part of a folding plate in The Beauties and deformities of Fox, North, and Burke, issued the same year by Stockdale, and as a headpiece design for a broadside issued by Stockdale advertising the publication of The beauties of Fox, North and Burke in February of 1784.
Frontispiece plate issued as an illustration in: The beauties of Fox, North and Burke, selected from their speeches : from the passing of the Quebec Act, in the year 1774, down to the present time ; with a copious index to the whole, and an address to the public (London : Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784).
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Design in a circle. A group of three bust portraits, that of Fox (left) facing three-quarter to right, Burke slightly behind him, and looking in the same direction, North in profile to the right. . Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Associated names
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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Classification
Department
Century prints
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