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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
Wynford as Jack Ketch
wood engraving
92 x 65 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2197
Published:
[London] : [William Strange], [ca. 1834]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Probably detached from one of four issues of Whiggeries and waggeries, London : William Strange, 1834. This publication reprinted wood engravings by Robert Seymour, Robert Cruikshank, and others which had previously appeared-- often with different captions-- in Figaro in London, also published by Strange. The identical image appeared in Figaro in London, no. 33, 1832, with the same title.
Summary:
Wynford (ex-CJ. of the Common Pleas), supported on crutches, gleefully watches the death-agonies of a cat which he has suspended from a gibbet.
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