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The Devel of a Medley
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sheet: 91 x 60 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2629
Published:
[England?] : [publisher not specified], [approximately 1757]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Library's copy trimmed to image border.
Design is based in aprt upon a detail from a larger print entitled "A political race" (BM Satires no. 2441); with the figures reversed.
Summary:
A free version of BM Satires 3574, with prints of Britannia wearing a yoke, a French coat of arms, and a back view of Lord Winchilsea, tracts on 'Political Lying' and 'Vacant Places' and other prints arranged as a medley.
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