What a man buys he may sell

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Joshua Kirby Baldrey
1754-1828
What a man buys he may sell
etching with stipple, hand-colored
image: 207 x 246 mm; sheet 229 x 246 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1607
Published: 
[London] : Pubd. Feby. [the] 12, 1788 for S. Doughty & Co., No. 19 Holborn, London, [1788]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Printmaker Joshua Baldrey occasionally operated from 19 Holborn in London, under the imprint "S. Doughty & Co." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Published as a companion print to George no. 7264.
In upper left corner: Plate 2.
Library's copy trimmed with presumed loss of imprint.

Summary: 

Print shows Warren Hastings, in profile to the right, wheeling a barrow in which sit George III and Thurlow, wearing his Chancellor's wig and gown; Hastings wears oriental dress: a jewelled turban, loose trousers, and cloak, and cries as he wheels his "wares": H-st--ngs ho, rare H-st--ngs!

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