print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,2.41
- Title
- Object: [Title-page from the Rolliad]
- Description
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The supposed coat of arms of John Rolle, see BMSat 6816. An escutcheon with the motto 'Jouez bien votre role'. On it are three French rolls and two rolled documents. The crest is a half length portrait of Lloyd Kenyon, the Master of the Rolls, to whom the volume is dedicated (pp. vii-xix) in a postscript originally added to the 8th number:
'Behold the Engraver's mimic labours trace
The sober image of that sapient face' 1785
Etching and letterpress text
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 94 millimetres (plate)
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Width: 87 millimetres (plate)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
In this dedication Kenyon is viciously attacked as responsible for the Westminster Scrutiny. (See BMSat 6553, &c.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,2.41
