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)
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
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
Keywords
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. //
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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