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Stealing off; - or - prudent secession

Maker

(artist)
1757-1815

(engraver)
1757-1815

(publisher)
(active 1778-1822) (Life dates)

Title

Stealing off; - or - prudent secession

Date of Production

6.11.1798

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.6 cm
Width: 36.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4362

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left within image & recto : speech bubble : Read o'er This![underscore] and after This! / And then to Breakfast, with / what appetite you may!! //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left within image & recto : scroll : O'Conner's / List of / Secret / Trai- / -tors //

Inscription: inscription : printed : middle left within image & recto : scroll : Destruction / of / Bouna[arte / Capture of / the French / Navy / End of the / Irish / Rebellion / Voluntary / Associations / Europe / Arming / Britannia / Ruling the / Waves - //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle within image & recto : scroll: Peace / or / Rum //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle left within image & recto : scroll: French / 1 lb //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle centre within image & recto : scroll: [unreadable letter] gat [2 unreadable lettes] //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle centre within image & recto : scroll: my own / Loyalty //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle centre within image & recto : scroll: Letter / to / W. Pitt //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle centrewithin image & recto : scroll: Homage / to the / French Con //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle right within image & recto : on hat lining : C. Fox //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper middle right within image & recto : scroll: Loyalty / or tge / Irish / Nation //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & within image & recto : on dog collar : OPPOSITION / GRAY HOUND //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & recto : : Js. Gilray inv. [ampersand] per / Pubd. Novr. 6th. 1798. by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : Stealing off [semicolon] or prudent Secesion[colon] "___courageous Chief! / The first in Flight! " / N.B. The background contains , a corner of the House next Session, with the Reasons / for Secesion, also, a democratic Dejeune[semicolon] (i.e. Opposition Eating up their Words //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right & recto : later Witt inscription : PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928. //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pencil : lower left & recto : later Witt inscription : imaginative //

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