print
- Museum number
- 1840,0808.148
- Title
- Object: The Rt. Honble Sir Robert Peel, M.P.
- Description
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Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 637); standing three-quarter length slightly to left, looking to right, leaning against a small table at left with his right hand, his left on his hip, curtain at left; border of eight lines around image; state before the inscription made thick and thin. 1827; this state published in 1828
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 552 millimetres
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Width: 402 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An inscription in The British Museum's annotated copy of Whitman's catalogue of prints by Charles Turner describes two more states after Whitman's state III, one with thick and thin lettering, and another where the open letters of the first line of dedication were shaded by a vertical line in the centre.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1840
- Acquisition notes
- £242 was the total paid for the group 1840,0808.1 to 203. Individual prices are sometimes recorded, and have been noted on the records.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1840,0808.148