The seat of war / R.S.

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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
The seat of war / R.S.
wood-engraving
2 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2173
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. 45, 1832, with the same title.

Summary: 

William I of the Netherlands, in seventeenth-century costume with huge inflated breeches, turns his back on King Leopold (right), contemptuously smoking a pipe, with which he sets light to a bunch of 'Protocol' papers. Leopold, in uniform and with a large document under his arm, makes as if to cut off a piece of the Dutchman's breeches with a huge pair of shears.

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