Ignatius

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Ignatius
etching with aquatint
image: 185 x 120 mm; sheet: 194 x 125 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 3197
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London : Publish'd March 28, [28 March was Sunday] 1784 by E. Hedges N° 92 Cornhill, [1784]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

A portrait of Burke, draped in a monkish robe and bald-headed; the bare toes of an enormous foot protrude from his gown. He is seated beside a rock (left), on which he rests a book in which he is writing; his other hand is raised.

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