Unity / Touch me touch my Master
Printmaker: Unknown
Etching on laid paper. Small oval plate impressed onto a small sheet of laid paper, presumably cut down. A double-headed head and shoulders portrait; Sir Robert Walpole in profile looking left and George II in profile looking right. Both men wear shoulder-length wigs. Below the image: 'Unity / Touch me touch my Master'. In the margin on the plate at lower centre: 'According to Act'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: 'George II and Sir Robert Walpole'. The subject presumably relates to the Parliamentary Privilege Act passed in 1737. There is an impression of this print in the Sutherland Collection (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), printmaker unknown. See catalogue of the Sutherland Collection: 'George II / with Sir Robert Walpole, two profiles on one head. In an oval. "Unity" / "Touch me, touch my Master" - octavo'. See Notes.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1737
Height 80mm (oval plate) x width 60mm (oval plate); height 108mm (sheet) x width 86mm (sheet)
Accession number: P.14828-R
Primary reference Number: 225437
Sutherland: 1 ('George II and Queen', p.387)
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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