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William Dent
active 1783-1793
Alexander the Great conquering all the world
etching, hand colored
image: 146 x 99 mm; plate mark: 149 x 101 mm; sheet: 154 x 106 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1602
Published:
London : Pubd for the proprietor, by W. Moore, No.48 New Bond Street, Feby 28th 1788.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Attributed to Dent by BM Satires.
Summary:
On the left Thurlow represents the world with his stomach in the shape of a globe. He faces Hastings whose head is bound in a turban from which stream coins into the globe.
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