Wetherell as clown

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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
Wetherell as clown
wood engraving
91 x 68 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2142
Published: 
[London] : [William Strange], [ca. 1834]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Probably detached from one of four issues of Whiggeries and waggeries, London : William Strange, 1834. This publication reprinted wood engravings by Robert Seymour, Robert Cruikshank, and others which had previously appeared-- with different captions-- in Figaro in London, also published by Strange. The identical image appeared in Figaro in London, no. 22, 1832, with the title Wetherell as a clown.

Summary: 

Wetherell, grotesquely knock-kneed, as a clown, blows a trumpet.

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