Peel Collection

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Peel Collection
Edmund Burke
ink wash touched with white on paper.
121 x 92 mm (4 3/4 x 3 5/8 inches)
Peel 3207
Notes: 

Title supplied by cataloger.
Possibly based on a portrait modeled in wax by sculptor and medallion maker Thomas R. Poole (died 1821).
Written in pencil on album leaf directly below drawing: "A print similar to this drawing (by William Tassie 1777-1860) has ms, note: Univ. Mag. & Review Dublin, Mch 1792 (print in Lewis Walpole Library)."

Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary: 

Head and shoulders profile of Burke in full profile to the left, wearing a wig tied with a ribbon.

Associated names: 

Poole, Thomas R., -1821.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.

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