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Capt: Swordsman
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image: 210 x 141 mm; sheet: 243 x 172 mm
Peel 2453
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
With "Fitzgerald?" inscribed in pencil at bottom right.
Notes:
Title from item.
The print shop of Mathias Darly and his wife, Mary Darly, was located at 39 Strand during the late 1760s through the 1770s.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image.
Summary:
Full length portrait of a man standing out of doors and facing right; he wears a wig with breeches and hose, a tricorne hat in one hand and a sword at his side; possibly intended to represent the noted Irish duellist, George Robert Fitzgerald.
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