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A keen-sighted politician warming his imagination
(1795)
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
17.1 × 13.7 cm (image) 28.0 × 21.8 cm (plate) 35.0 × 24.2 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
George 8659; Wright & Evans 129
Printing/Publishing
published by Hannah Humphrey, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.c.: A keen-sighted Politician warming his Imagination .
printed in ink l.l.: “Lord-Pogy, boasts no common share of head; / “What plenteous stores of knowledge may contain, / “The spacious tenement of Pogys brain! / “Nature in all her dispensations wise. / “Who form’d his head-piece of so vast a size.
printed in ink l.r.: Hath not tis true neglected to besto / It’s due proportion on the purt below; / And hence we reason that to serve the state / His top & bottom may have equal weight.
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-u.r.: (text on painting frame, books and map)
Accession Number
1573.54-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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