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James Gillray
1756-1815
The impeachment, or, "The father of the gang turned Kings evidence"
hand colored etching,
image: 300 x 383 mm; plate: 310 x 398 mm; sheet: 319 x 407 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2726
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[London] : Publ. ... by S. W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly , 1791 May.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary:
Print shows Edmund Burke standing behind and with his hands on the heads of Richard B. Sheridan and Charles James Fox, who bow before him over a railing, perhaps before Parliament. Burke says, "Behold the abettors of Revolutions, see the authors of Plots & conspiracies, & take cognizance of the enemies of both Church & State ... who are aiming at the Overthrow of the British Constitution."
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