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George Bickham
Great Britain and Ireland's yawn
engraving
image: 12 3/16 x 9 7/16 inches (309 x 240 mm); sheet: 14 x 9 7/16 inches (356 x 240 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1228
Published:
[London] : Publish'd by G. Bickham in May's Buildings, Octor. 11th 1743.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title engraved below image.
Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below title: More he had said, but yawn'd. All nature nods: What mortal can resist the yawn of gods? ... Dunciad.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
A large, full-face portrait of Sir Robert Walpole yawning violently.
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