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James Gillray
1756-1815
"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man" : vide scene in Bloomsbury Square / Js. Gy. d. et f[ecit].
hand colored etching
image: 34.2 x 23.7 cm; plate: 35 x 24.5 cm; sheet: 35.8 x 25.3 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2928
Published:
[London] : Pubd. Feby 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, 1796.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed.
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