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James Bruce, Esq. of Kinnaird, the Abyssinian Traveller and Peter Williamson, author of "Life and Vicissitudes of Peter Williamson"

Maker

(artist)
1742-1826

(publisher)

(printer)

Title

James Bruce, Esq. of Kinnaird, the Abyssinian Traveller and Peter Williamson, author of "Life and Vicissitudes of Peter Williamson"

Date of Production

1877

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4602.69

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: stamped : ink : upper right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : How dare you approach me with your travells. THere is not a single word of them true / There you may be right, and altho' I never dined upon the Lion or eat half a Cow and turned / the rest to grafs, yet my works have been of more use to mankind than yours, / and there is more truth in one page of my Edin.r directory than in all your five / Volumes 4.0 So when you talk to me don't imagine yourfelf at the Source of the Nile! / J. KAY Del. et Sculp.t Publifhed as the Act Directs 1791 / 59 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : Travells Eldest Son in Conversation with a Cherokee Chief. //

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