[Woodford Rice Esq.]

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[Woodford Rice Esq.]
etching with engraving & stipple engraving
image: 230 x 190 mm; plate mark: 235 x 195 mm; sheet: 246 x 202 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2318
Published: 
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1783]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title and publication date from BM Satires.
Print issued as a frontispiece to Woodford Rice's The Rutland volunteer influenza'd, or, A receipt to make a patriot, a soldier, or a poet (London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1783).
Library's copy ...

Summary: 

A man in a coat with military facings, identified as Woodford Rice, stands in the middle of a room holding in his left hand a book open to the title page, "The Rutland Volunteers," and with a frontispiece that is a copy of this print. In the background, a military hat and a sword lie on a chair, together with a table with writing materials on it. Above the table hangs a plan depicting General Burgoyne's position against the French and Spanish armies at Villa Vellia Ford in 1762 where Captain Rice distiguished himself in the battle.

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