Monsr le Dupe

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Monsr le Dupe
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image: 90 x 60 mm; sheet: 92 x 254 mm
Peel 2632a
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Library's copy is printed on a single sheet with three additional satrirical prints, arranged side by side horizontally and trimmed within plate mark (see Peel 2632a-d).
A much reduced and reversed version of a design issued in "A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757" and "England's remembrancer: or, a humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas"; see BM Satires 3504 and 3505.

Summary: 

A portrait of the Duke of Newcastle as a Knave from a deck of cards (the "pip" designating him as the Knave of Spades is absent in this copy of the design), in profile to the left; three fleurs-de-lis, indicating his alleged subserviency to French counsels, are placed like flowers growing from the ground at his feet.

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