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James Gillray
1756-1815
"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man" : vide scene in Bloomsbury Square / Js. Gy. d. et f[ecit].
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image: 342 x 237 mm; plate: 350 x 245 mm; sheet: 341 x 229 mm (trimmed)
Peel 3423
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[London] : Pubd. Feby 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed.
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