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Summary
[Doctor Verdion.]
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| Title |
[Doctor Verdion.] |
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| Description |
English: An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. Behind is the door of a shop, inscribed 'G. Riebau'. Part of the adjoining shop-window (left) is visible, inscribed '[A]uctioner. 439'. Against the panes are books, prints, and a notice: 'Old Books bought'. A placard hangs outside the window: 'Price 6 \ Imparti[al] Life of Paine.' (A pamphlet, 'Impartial Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine', was published in 1793.) Beneath the design:
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Thomas Paine | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.6682 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Actually a woman, 'Chevalier [or Miss] John Theodora de Verdion', a London eccentric. Similar portraits were published after her death, aged 58, 16 July 1802. See 'B.M. Cat. Engraved British Portraits' and BMSats 8371, 9063. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6682 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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