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A legal faint i,e, a feint
etching
image: 148 x 94 mm; plate mark: 166 x 111 mm; sheet: 172 x 114 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1697
Published:
[London] : Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & Co, June 1st 1791.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
At head of image: Attic Miscellany. / Legal Portraiture No. 3.
From the Attic Miscellany, ii. 314; illustration to "The Oratorical Swooner", an account of Erskine's eloquence, and his practice of appearing overcome "by the exquisite sensibility of his feelings." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Plate reissued, 1 Nov. 1793, in The Carlton House Magazine.
Summary:
Print shows Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, standing slim and elegant in wig and long gown, his right hand on his breast, looking to the left, and staggering slightly backwards.
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