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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

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Published

[London] : [Pub 29th Decr. 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand], [1783]

etching :
sheet: 94 x 63 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3270
Notes
Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Individual image removed from a larger print entitles "Two new sliders for the state magic lanthern", consisting of a series of ten images in two rows, presented as two magic lantern "sliders" (long slides containing multiple images to be successively pushed or slid before the lens); this being number nine of ten numbered panels.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Fox, North, and Burke seated in a tumbrel beneath a gallows.

Associated names
Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints