Lord R-b-h / etch'd by a Lady.

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Lord R-b-h / etch'd by a Lady.
etching
image: 108 x 87 mm; sheet: 115 x 90 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1630
Published: 
[place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1781?]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Date from British Museum catalog; BM Satires tentatively identifies the subject of this caricature as the Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), noted as a collector of rare books and broadside ballads.

Summary: 

Bust portrait of a young man in profile to the right much caricatured. He has a large aquiline nose, large eye, receding forehead and chin, long thin neck, and sloping shoulders. Cf. BM Satires.

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