Attributed to Frederick George Byron, English amateur painter, designer, and etcher of satirical prints, in the British Museum online catalog.
Title from item.
Includes excerpt: "Burke on the Revolution in France, page 250."
At bottom of print: In Holland's Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of Caricatures, admittance one shilling.
The Morgan Library & Museum holds a preliminary drawing for this print; see Peel 3394.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, facing left, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publisher of Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" which hangs from the horn of the saddle. The head of the donkey has a human face and wears the triple-tiered crown of the pope; depicted on the shield are scenes of torture and death, and a view of the Bastille.