To Her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire, this print of "India vindicated", is by her permission, most humbly dedicated = À la Grace Madame la Duchesse de Devonshire ... / Stodhard pinxt ; R. Pollard, sculpt dirext & perfecit.

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Robert Pollard

1755-1838

[London?] : [Publisher not identified], [1789?]

etching with stipple

sheet: 434 x 432 mm (trimmed)

Peel 3437

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Bibliography:

Bromley, Henry. A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present time. London : T. Payne, 1793, page 420.

Notes:

After Thomas Stothard.
Parallel title and caption text in English and French; the individuals represented are identified below the image.
With a six line "Explanation" in English and French at foot of sheet.
The kneeling figure at right, identified here as "Mr. Frances", is identified in the British Museum online catalog as Lord Cornwallis.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark; evidently cropped at bottom of sheet, with a small strip of the lower margin lettered with the identities of the figures at left (i.e. the Dutchess of Devonshire and Viscountess Duncannon) and the three medallion portraits (Burke, Fox, and Sheridan) excised from the sheet and mounted separately below the print.

Summary:

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as Liberty, the staff of Liberty in her right hand, indicating with her left portrait medallions depicting Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox and Richard Sheridan suspended on a pillar; to left, Viscountess Duncannon, posing as Clio, muse of history; at right, a figure identified as "Mr. Frances" [i.e. Philip Francis?] kneels in the company of Munny Begum, Cheyt Sing, and the Rajah of Banares.

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Century:

18th century

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Department:

Drawings and Prints