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Frontispiece
etching and engraving
4 15/16 x 3 7/16 inches (125 x 88 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 0612
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[England] : [publisher not identified], [17--]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Watermark: double circle with anchor? inside, fragment.
Satire on the supposed continuing political domination of Lord Bute. Frontispiece to "The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, Being a Collection of several Curious PIeces, in Verse and Prose" (Vol I.) "The Second Edition. London. Printed in the Year MDCCLXVIII." Cf. British Museum online catalog.

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