Letterpress broadside with two columns of text, from Craftsman, 12 Dec., and Daily courant, 21 Dec. 1730, illustrated above with two engraved oval portraits, from left, of Lord Bolingbroke and Sir Robert Walpole (plate mark of each 11.7 x 10.7 cm.)., The imprint is probably fictitious: Figg and Sutton were pugilists. See Stephens., Sheet trimmed resulting in loss of imprint., 1sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (ports.) ; 37 x 24 cm., Subjects identified below image in unknown hand., and Numbered on verso in unidentified: N11415.
Publisher:
Printed for Messieurs Figg and Sutton
Subject (Name):
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
Mr. Pulteney duels with Lord Hervey in a country road, an open field behind them and in the distance trees against a dark, cloudy sky. In the foreground on the right stands the figure of Sir Robert Walpole who points to the two duelers
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 1., Subjects identified below image in contemporary hand., and Window mounted to 20 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
