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Hieroglyphic Letter from the Devil to Sir Laurence Dundas

Maker

(artist)
1742-1826

(publisher)

(printer)

Title

Hieroglyphic Letter from the Devil to Sir Laurence Dundas

Date of Production

1877

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 17.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4603.200

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

Stamp: Recto: upper right margin, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

Inscription: Recto: lower left, printed: K

Inscription: Recto: within image, printed: Sir L__e Dund / W consider w have ready done for my hoof, and t / it may never again hap in r way ist my emifsarys as / erly not forb enting r late mis tune, re itulate / r ser s would endlefs __In the y y6 grasped t oppor / tunity get by the of thou s of ilys __In Ger y w / Commis ry the y sent thou s the for w of / since com cing Baro have n no lefs afsiduous in ing / my dom by Ncouraging ner of wickednefs, by gaming false / swea serve r & my ends, for which ser s may asure / rself of ing made a of my dom and my priv coun- / sellor for ever / am rs & c. / The

Inscription: Recto: lower right, printed: 357

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