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[Colonel Bodens]
etching, hand colored
image: 69 x 54 mm; plate mark: 86 x 61 mm; sheet: 106 x 78 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2315
Published:
[London] : Pub by M Darly July 24, 1780, 39 Strand, [1780].
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Inscribed "1/6 Col. O Kelley" in pen below image.
Notes:
Title from BM Satires.
Caricature of George Bodens (also Boden or Bowden), Gentleman Usher to the King, member of Boodle's, and son of Capt. Charles Bodens.
Summary:
Print shows a portrait (half length), in profile to the right, of a fat man with a small head and very thick neck. His wig has a small looped queue; he wears a small hat with a cockade, a very bulky great-coat, with a nosegay under his chin. Cf. BM Satires.
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