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Samuel Collings
Protheus on privileges / Annibal Scratch fecit.
etching and stipple engraving
image: 148 x 96 mm; sheet: 164 x 101 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1698
Published:
[London] : Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co., Feby. 1st 1791.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Identity of printmaker suggested by BM Satires.
Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 177.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Horne Tooke stands in profile to the left trampling on the mace of the House of Commons and holding out his hat. His left hand is thrust into his coat-pocket, from which projects a document: [West]minster Petition. Cf. BM Satires.
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