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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
The infant Hercules
etching with stipple
image: 199 x 325 mm; plate mark: 249 x 352 mm; cropped sheet: 198 x 325 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2460
Published:
[London] : Pubd. Feby. 3d. 1784, by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand, [1784]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Library's copy is cropped, with the loss of the caption title and the imprint.
Summary:
Print shows William Pitt as a child sitting on the "Shield of Chatham," grasping by the neck two serpents, one with the head of Fox, the other with that of North. Fox's tail is inscribed, "Bill East India" and is entwined with North's tail labeled "American war." The child is saying "These were your ministers."
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